fun facts....huh? While avoiding my homework and entertaining my lobe of knowledge, which if you ask me is doing what school should be doing for us (that is, learning about what we find interesting), I found out some facts that unless posted would just stir in my head and further convince me to cook some great tofu platters. I give you "Some of Kara's reasons for going veggie"

>750 million people go to bed hungry every night
>one-third of the world’s grain is fed to farmed animals
> A typical Western meat-based diet can only feed 2.5 billion people: a plant-based diet will feed every one in the world
>The global appetite for meat and the industrial techniques of the meat industry are destroying the Earth
>24 per cent of dairy cows are pregnant when slaughtered - many nearing full term.
>Calves are taken from their mothers a day or two after birth. Males are usually killed
>Boiled alive->up to one fifth of chickens may be fully conscious when they enter the scalding tank to loosen their feathers
>75 per cent of all piglets have their teeth crushed and tails cut off without anaesthetics
>80 per cent of all eggs come from battery hens - kept five to a cage no bigger than a microwave oven.
>a quarter of dairy cows are so exhausted by the dairy milking process they never see their third year, despite having a life expectancy of 21 years or more


it goes on and on and on and on......sick huh? I doubt this is the first time you have heard all of this before, but please, just think on it for a minute. Even if you just heard one new thing, think about it, and decide if it has moved you. Now act. NOW! hahahaha.....
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