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“ Raising animals for food is the single greatest human-caused source of destruction to our
environment. it is the largest source of greenhouse gases, land use and degradation; the
number one source of water pollution and rainforest deforestation. it’s also a major contributor
to air pollution, ocean dead zones, habitat loss, and species extinction. And when we include
all the resources that go into raising animals for food—the land, fertilizers, pesticides and
by Melani Ellis insecticides, fossil fuels and freshwater—animal agribusiness is shockingly inefficient and a
costly and wasteful use of our limited natural resources. veganism is the solution.”
— KD Angle-Traegner YourDailyVegan.com

Many of us are now aware of what a exploitation of animals, meaning —most of the same experiences we
devastating impact the factory farm consuming exclusively plant-based as humans face. We’re realizing how
industry has had on Planet Earth, that foods, not wearing animal skins, arrogant we’ve been to diminish and
it’s the leading cause of our ecological using products that weren’t tested on dominate them, and we’re making
crisis as well as world starvation. If we animals, avoiding zoos, circuses, animal changes to respect, free, and protect
don’t end this deranged practice, we breeders, and not caging animals, etc. them instead.
will destroy the planet and ourselves
in the near future; of this, there is no Sustainability is concerned with the It is within our reach to create a world
longer any doubt. The single most well being of all elements within where animals once again roam freely
significant way we can diminish our an environment; it’s commonly all over the Earth, safe from harm
ecological footprint and contribute to understood that for the whole eco- or interference by humans -- where
a sustainable future on Earth is to system to be healthy, each part their habitats are restored -- where
adopt a plant-based diet. must be cared for because all are people no longer harm them, cage
interconnected. The way we humans them, or use them for anything. This
Fortunately, many people have realized have carelessly ridden roughshod over is an attainable vision, and it’s already
what a big difference every individual the animals is just the opposite of starting to happen with the vegan
can make, and there is currently what this kind of caring. We’ve disregarded revolution underway. We’ll need to take
could only be described as a vegan and dominated them, enslaved and some transitional steps to achieve this
revolution taking place on the planet. tortured them, and we are breeding goal, and one that’s being done all over
People adopt a plant-based lifestyle them for the largest-scale holocaust in the world is the freeing of animals from
for a number of reasons; that it’s the history. 60 billion farmed animals are captivity and providing safe refuge for
solution for a sustainable future and slaughtered across this Earth every year them with animal sanctuaries.
that it’s by far the healthiest option with 10 billion in the US alone.
for our bodies. A large percentage of An animal sanctuary is a home for
these people have chosen to be vegan It’s time we end this barbaric behavior animals that have been rescued from
out their unwillingness to participate toward animals and begin honoring farms, neglect, abuse, homelessness,
in the suffering of animals. Most of us them, along with every living thing -- experimentation labs, zoos, circuses,
were raised on foods laden with animal the waters, trees, rocks, mountains, and etc. They will live out their natural lives
flesh, dairy and eggs, and had no idea all of Nature. Each of these deserve our at the sanctuary as their forever home.
of the horrific nightmare these animals respect and it’s ignorant to believe that They will live in a peaceful and safe
are living in. Once we discovered the we’re superior to them, which is the environment where they will never
truth, so well concealed by the animal underlying belief fueling the animal be exploited again. This protected
agriculture industry, we realized we agriculture industry. We need to wake sanctuary will imitate their natural
could never participate in this kind of up and discontinue our interference in habitat as much as possible, and they
abuse again, and we became vegan. their lives, allow them to live however will be given the space to just be...in
they wish, freely. Every animal is an peace. Many of them are injured or
A vegan is someone who lives individual with a complex life, desires, ill from neglect and abuse and need
without supporting any cruelty or relationships, and a range of emotions veterinary attention, rehabilitation,

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