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Reasons I am vegan

For animals 🐷 (ethical)

• Animals in factory farms are treated horribly, kept in confined spaces, and basically live a life of pain and torture
• I would not feel comfortable killing an animal myself, so it would be hypocritical of me to ask someone else to do it on my behalf

<aside> 🦌 From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soullessness of men.

– M. Frida Hartley

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For Earth 🌎 (environmental)

• Animal agriculture has a huge impact on the environment
• It is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and water pollution

Sources

• https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/climate/diet-vegan-meat-emissions.html

For myself 💪 (health)

• Vegan diets have numerous health benefits. They are typically high in nutrients that are important for good health, such as fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, and may be associated with a lower risk of certain health problems, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes.
• Note: it is important to be aware that a vegan diet may be low in certain nutrients that are important for good health, such as protein, iron, calcium, and vitamin B12, and it may be necessary to take supplements or pay special attention to certain foods in your diet to ensure that you are getting enough of these nutrients.

Other pages

Jesse’s Yummy Vegan Recipes

Jesse’s Yummy Vegan Restaurants

Animal Liberation

Next steps

1. Veganize your wardrobe
2. Clean up household products
3. Choose cruelty-free cosmetics

“We have always liked to think ourselves less savage than the other animals. To say that people are ‘humane’ is to say that they are kind; to say that they are ‘beastly,’ "brutal,’ or simply that they behave ‘like animals’ is to suggest that they are cruel and nasty.

We rarely stop to consider that the animal who kills with the least reason to do so is the human animal. We think of lions and wolves as savage because they kill; but they must kill, or starve. Humans kill other animals for sport, to satisfy their curiosity, to beautify their bodies, and to please their palates.

Human beings also kill members of their own species for greed or power. Moreover, human beings are not content with mere killing. Throughout history they have shown a tendency to torment and torture both their fellow human beings and their fellow animals before putting them to death. No other animal shows much interest in doing this” — Peter Singer, Animal Liberation

• "A Beguiling Feast" poem (credit: chatGPT)

Resources to affirm this decision

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• ⭐ Dominion ⭐
• The Game Changers
• Cowspiracy </aside>

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• Talk to ChatGPT Vegan Advocate

• Veganuary.com

  Veganuary-Starter-Kit.pdf

  Celebrity-Cookbook.pdf

  Budget-Meal-Plan.pdf

• Nutritionfacts.org

• Vegancheatsheet.org

• Veganhacktivists.org

• veganactivism.org/

• The-best-most-logical-anti-vegan-arguments (and their refutations)

• Earthlinged.org

• veganadvocacy.org/eva </aside>

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30 Excuses - Ed Winters.pdf

• This is Vegan Propaganda </aside>

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• Earthling Ed
  • You Will Never Look at Your Life in the Same Way Again | Eye-Opening Speech!
• Simnett Nutrition
  • Advice for New Vegans! (B12, Protein and more)
  • 10 Vegan Food Hacks That Will Change Your Life! 💥🌱💪
• NutritionFactsOrg
  • How Not To Die: The Role of Diet in Preventing, Arresting, and Reversing Our Top 15 Killers
  • How Not to Die: An Animated Summary
• Best Speech You Will Ever Hear - Gary Yourofsky
• We're not different, in any important way
• Ryuji Chua </aside>

<aside> <img src="/icons/user_blue.svg" alt="/icons/user_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Facebook groups

• Boston Vegan Facebook group </aside>

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• Veracious
• Vigorous
• Vivacious
• Voracious
• Visionary
• Veritable </aside>

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Quotes

<aside> 🪦 “My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.” – Leonardo Da Vinci

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<aside> 🐷 “Poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself.” – T. Casey Brennan

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<aside> 🪨 “Veganism is a stepping stone: although it’s the single simplest thing that we can do to have the largest positive impact, it’s by no means the only thing that we can do.” – Ed Winters, AKA Earthling Ed

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<aside> 🍔 “We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers.” – Peter Singer

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<aside> ⚖️ “We must all face the choice between what is right, and what is easy” – Albus Dumbledore

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<aside> 😖 "The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'" – Jeremy Bentham

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<aside> 👬 "Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends." – George Bernard Shaw

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<aside> 🖼️ "If you don't like seeing pictures of violence towards animals being posted, you need to help stop the violence, not the pictures." – Johnny Depp

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<aside> 🐠 “We’ll stop using straws to save fish, but won’t stop eating fish to save fish.” – Anonymous

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<aside> 🐂 “People eat meat and think they will become strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.” – Pino Caruso

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