VEGAN DISCUSSION

Question: How many people in this classroom eat meat, eggs, milk, or cheese?

Question: How many people know what a Holocaust is?

Definition of Holocaust- A massacre of beings.

What is a Vegan?

Vegans do not consume meat (no land animals-no marine animals), eggs, milk, or dairy products.

Vegans also do not use leather, silk, or down or any product derived from an animal.

A Few Facts:

53 billion land animals are slaughtered worldwide for food each year.

90 billion marine animals are killed each year.

10 billion animals in the United States are killed each year for food.

#1 Killer of humans who choose to eat meat is heart disease.

65% of the worlds grains are set aside to feed land animals instead of starving people,

Eliminate cholesterol entirely from your diet by adopting a vegan diet.

Question: Can slavery have a victim that is not human?

Topics to discuss:

• Animals are not products; they do not belong to us.
• Animals have feelings.
• Hatred is a learned behavior and can be reversed.
• Kindness and compassion can be created.
• Society excuses their pain and misery and makes fun of their exsistance,
• Face reality-animals go into slaughterhouses scared alive and come out chopped up and packaged into pieces.
• 4 reasons people consume meat- habit, convenience, tradition, and taste.
• We are natural herbivores,
• Standard diet of a meat eater is: blood, tendons, veins, flesh, and dismembered body parts from animals.
• YOU can directly participate in ending a massacre. A personal revouloution by participating in helping innocent helpless animals and going vegan.
• Choose to change- radically kind or radically cruel.
• Show animals kindness and compassion.