Eating Vegan

Since Leia wouldn't let me tell her on the phone last night, here are a few reasons I'm currently eating vegan:

A worker at a chicken plant said, "I personally have seen rotten meat - you can tell by the odor. This rotten meat is mixed with fresh meat and sold for baby food.... You can see the worms inside the meat."

"When you consume dairy products, you are ingesting the same antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, and hormones you would if you ate meat directly."

"Cows are milked by machine; metal clamps are attached to the cows' sensitive udders. The udders become sore and infected. Pus forms. But the machines keep on milking, sucking the dead white blood cells into the milk."

"Nearly half of all the water consumed in the U.S. is used to raise animals for food. A totally vegetarian diet requires 300 gallons of water per day, while a meat-based diet requires more than 4,000 gallons of water per day."

"Male chicks are worthless to the egg industry because they don't lay eggs and because their breed is too small to be raised for flesh. The egg industry kills millions of newborn male chicks every year by suffocating them to death in bags or by dropping them alive into high-speed grinders."

So those are a few reasons. I think I'll go hug some trees now....