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vegAn Aloha by Petra Juicy

eating as if…

THE EARTH MATTERS–because is does

The human appetite for animal flesh is the driving force behind virtually every major

environmental issue on the planet. Issues like deforestation, erosion, fresh water scarcity,
air and water pollution, climate change, starvation, malnutrition, social injustice and the
spread of disease. It is the greatest contributor to our world destruction and eventual
human extinction.

There are 7 billion people on the planet and we kill 2 that happens daily in slaughterhouses. Animals are
billion animals per week and 1 million fish per day. If tortured, gassed, electrocuted, kicked, beaten, stabbed
we killed humans at this rate, we would be extinct in and shredded alive every day and we live in ignorance
one weekend. of this happening.

The cattle industry is the greatest environmental The egg industry is no different, as male baby chicks
destroyer of our planet’s resources and the leading are shredded alive to create food pellets to feed the
cause of global warming. The cattle industry is the farmed fish industry. Since there is no use for male
biggest ocean predator as it pillages the oceans of chicks in the egg industry, we get rid of them at
fish that is ground to feed livestock. Since when are alarming rates.
cows supposed to eat fish anyway? The cattle industry We go to the grocery store and stock up on our meat,
sucks up fresh water aquifers to produce beef and the dairy and egg products, having been brainwashed
aquifers cannot replenish fast enough. Over 4 billion that this is the only way and the healthiest way to eat.
people suffer from a lack of fresh drinking water and This way of eating is in fact killing us. Dairy and meat
we are wasting it on the cattle industry. It takes more consumption is the leading cause of diabetes, heart
than 4,000 gallons (15,000 liters) of water to produce a disease and cancer. It causes inflammation inside our
single day’s worth of food for the typical meat eater.
bodies and meat sits rotting in our stomachs and
Animals are other species on this planet, just like us, intestines for a long time as the body is digesting it.
and we kill them at our will. By eating meat or dairy The body is always doing one of two things – it is
we are contributing to the injustice, cruelty and terror either digesting our food or it is healing us. If our body

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