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Protect Animals, the Environment, and Your Health - Pledge to be Veg!
Sponsored by: PETA
With every passing day, your life and the lives of others are affected by your food choices. Eating your veggies is good for your health, good for the environment, and, of course, good for animals! Take a look at the facts behind our food habits:
Please make a difference today by pledging to be vegetarian for one month. And if you're already vegetarian, you can help by asking your friends and family to sign the pledge to be veg!
- Animals in factory farms have little, or no, legal protection from cruelty. This same cruelty would be illegal if it were inflicted on dogs or cats. Yet farmed animals are just as intelligent and capable of feeling pain as the animals we cherish as companions.
- Eating animal-based foods impairs the hearts ability to do its job. A major study in 2005 reconfirmed that those who ate the most meat were also at the greatest risk for heart disease.
- Raising animals for food damages the environment more than nearly anything else we do. Environmental organizations agree: eating meat wastes natural resources, pollutes the water, destroys topsoil, and contaminates the air for everyone.
Please make a difference today by pledging to be vegetarian for one month. And if you're already vegetarian, you can help by asking your friends and family to sign the pledge to be veg!
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We signed the “Protect Animals, the Environment, and Your Health - Pledge to be Veg!” petition!
# 7,850:
1:14 pm PST, Nov 16,
Kathleen Kline, Pennsylvania
# 7,849:
3:48 pm PST, Nov 15,
Lorena Silva, Mexico
# 7,848:
11:44 am PST, Nov 15,
Denise Bonk, Pennsylvania
# 7,847:
5:31 pm PST, Nov 14,
Brielle Young, Virginia
Becoming vegiterian may be tough at first but it gives a great feeling to know you're helping out.
Becoming vegiterian may be tough at first but it gives a great feeling to know you're helping out.
# 7,846:
10:18 am PST, Nov 14,
Name not displayed, Illinois
# 7,845:
5:34 am PST, Nov 14,
Joanna Nicholson, North Carolina
# 7,844:
3:11 pm PST, Nov 13,
Patricia Gil, Mexico
# 7,843:
6:40 pm PST, Nov 12,
Heather Hrivnak, Pennsylvania
# 7,842:
8:10 am PST, Nov 12,
STEPHANIE COLSON, Oklahoma
# 7,841:
7:41 am PST, Nov 12,
Ralph Wirth, Germany
Wake up people! The rule that the strong kill the week is past. The middle ages are over. Stupid and cruel people are not wanted.
Wake up people! The rule that the strong kill the week is past. The middle ages are over. Stupid and cruel people are not wanted.
# 7,840:
7:13 am PST, Nov 12,
Cher Clarke, Canada
# 7,839:
8:28 pm PST, Nov 11,
Laura Stringer, Maryland
# 7,838:
7:45 pm PST, Nov 11,
Ali Hirst, Australia
# 7,837:
7:45 pm PST, Nov 11,
Sophia Dalle, New York
Hi everyone! i am long time vegan and performer. I od not wear fur or leather. i have yummy veg meals and wear faux fur and faux leather. Its easy! there is so much yummy veg food out there . if we really want to save the environment and not cause pain suffering to any living soul whether in human or animal or birdie body please do become vegetarian at least your health your spirit and the animals and planet will be much better for it
Hi everyone! i am long time vegan and performer. I od not wear fur or leather. i have yummy veg meals and wear faux fur and faux leather. Its easy! there is so much yummy veg food out there . if we really want to save the environment and not cause pain suffering to any living soul whether in human or animal or birdie body please do become vegetarian at least your health your spirit and the animals and planet will be much better for it
# 7,836:
6:17 pm PST, Nov 11,
Denise Adams, United Kingdom
# 7,835:
5:20 pm PST, Nov 11,
Lauren Lynn, Ohio
Ive been a vegetarian for almost four years now and i greatly encourage everyone to try it! Even if its just skipping the hamburger and getting the salad 3 times a week you are saving 4 animals a month!
Ive been a vegetarian for almost four years now and i greatly encourage everyone to try it! Even if its just skipping the hamburger and getting the salad 3 times a week you are saving 4 animals a month!
# 7,834:
12:31 pm PST, Nov 10,
Zobia Saman, United Kingdom
# 7,833:
2:35 am PST, Nov 9,
Elaine Adgar-Reitze, Colorado
These quotations seek to wake us up. They seek to give us hope. Pythagoras (circa 582-507 BC) "The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul." Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) ~God's Covenant with Animals, Lantern Books, 2000, xii "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) "Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives." "We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man." "The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret.....It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind." - Nobel Peace Prize Address, "The Problem of Peace in the World Today" "The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the reverence for life that he gives his own. "The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil." "Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come wherein humanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come. The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil. Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man."
These quotations seek to wake us up. They seek to give us hope. Pythagoras (circa 582-507 BC) "The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul." Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) ~God's Covenant with Animals, Lantern Books, 2000, xii "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) "Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives." "We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man." "The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret.....It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind." - Nobel Peace Prize Address, "The Problem of Peace in the World Today" "The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the reverence for life that he gives his own. "The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil." "Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come wherein humanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come. The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil. Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man."
# 7,832:
10:53 pm PST, Nov 8,
Name not displayed, California
Eating flesh: destroys the liver and takes 6 to 48 hours for the body to break down, eliminate flesh --all for poor quality protein. Where is the LOGIC: raise grain to feed animals THEN eat the animals??? Cut out the toxins, the water -land waste, the anti-biotics to counteract reaction to the grains, and the predatory middlemen: Eat the grains directly!
Eating flesh: destroys the liver and takes 6 to 48 hours for the body to break down, eliminate flesh --all for poor quality protein. Where is the LOGIC: raise grain to feed animals THEN eat the animals??? Cut out the toxins, the water -land waste, the anti-biotics to counteract reaction to the grains, and the predatory middlemen: Eat the grains directly!
# 7,831:
7:30 pm PST, Nov 8,
Name not displayed, New Jersey
# 7,830:
6:19 pm PST, Nov 8,
Charmaine Sabri, Pennsylvania
# 7,829:
5:47 pm PST, Nov 8,
Schulzmary@yaho Schulz, California
# 7,828:
5:24 pm PST, Nov 8,
Jamie Scott, Texas
# 7,827:
4:36 pm PST, Nov 8,
Marcelo Santao, Brazil
# 7,826:
7:57 pm PST, Nov 7,
Robenson Jean-Baptiste, Florida
# 7,825:
8:02 am PST, Nov 7,
Maggie Odle, Tennessee
# 7,824:
4:51 pm PST, Nov 6,
Debi Dalton, United Kingdom
# 7,823:
1:04 pm PST, Nov 6,
Victoria Leblanc, France
# 7,822:
11:41 am PST, Nov 6,
Krista Risher, Texas
# 7,821:
8:16 am PST, Nov 6,
Connie Bishop, Alabama
I am on 3..yes 3 medications to reduce fat content in my blood. I decided to also eliminate meat.(my own decision, not doctors)This past month my overall cholesterol dropped 10 points and different aspects of the lipid test(I don't totally understand all the stuff) looked better. When all goes green...being good levels...I will come off of medication and go straight diet. This will be my decision of course. Then I well wait 3 months without meds and see what happened with just the diet. Wish me luck...my Dad died of Heartattack at 41. I'm 51 now...Yeah I've got 10 years on him.
I am on 3..yes 3 medications to reduce fat content in my blood. I decided to also eliminate meat.(my own decision, not doctors)This past month my overall cholesterol dropped 10 points and different aspects of the lipid test(I don't totally understand all the stuff) looked better. When all goes green...being good levels...I will come off of medication and go straight diet. This will be my decision of course. Then I well wait 3 months without meds and see what happened with just the diet. Wish me luck...my Dad died of Heartattack at 41. I'm 51 now...Yeah I've got 10 years on him.
# 7,820:
8:47 pm PST, Nov 5,
Rachel Stewart, Vermont
my parents say not to, but i'm going to because it it what i believe is just, right & fair. Morally and physically i will feel better! meat makes me sick to my stomach i love animals! Save them! ~G'Luck everyone!~
my parents say not to, but i'm going to because it it what i believe is just, right & fair. Morally and physically i will feel better! meat makes me sick to my stomach i love animals! Save them! ~G'Luck everyone!~
# 7,819:
1:45 pm PST, Nov 5,
Laura Donatucci, Mississippi
I am new to becoming vegan, about 10 days in but I look forward to it for the rest of my life. Save the animals, GO VEGAN!!
I am new to becoming vegan, about 10 days in but I look forward to it for the rest of my life. Save the animals, GO VEGAN!!
# 7,818:
5:43 pm PST, Nov 4,
ANTONIO CARLOS MACHADO GIUSTI, Brazil
# 7,817:
1:33 pm PST, Nov 4,
Tatiana Costa, Brazil
# 7,816:
5:09 pm PDT, Nov 3,
Name not displayed, France
# 7,815:
2:59 pm PDT, Nov 3,
Rowan Caylor, Indiana
I've been vegetarian since I was 10, and I got three of my friends to go veg too. It's one of my main focuses in life.
I've been vegetarian since I was 10, and I got three of my friends to go veg too. It's one of my main focuses in life.
# 7,814:
10:12 pm PDT, Nov 2,
Crissy Baker, Florida
# 7,813:
9:54 pm PDT, Nov 2,
Rachael Nunez, Arizona
# 7,812:
6:43 pm PDT, Nov 2,
Jessica Lizotte, Canada
Proud vegan since age 11. Save the animals!
Proud vegan since age 11. Save the animals!
# 7,811:
6:17 pm PDT, Nov 2,
Silky Wyld, Wisconsin
# 7,810:
3:17 pm PDT, Nov 2,
ERI ROD, California
HAVE DONE IT IN THE PAST. LOVED IT. WANNA GO BACK
HAVE DONE IT IN THE PAST. LOVED IT. WANNA GO BACK
# 7,809:
12:00 pm PDT, Nov 2,
Name not displayed, Michigan
The best thing you can do in your life is to make others lives better.....
The best thing you can do in your life is to make others lives better.....
# 7,808:
9:30 am PDT, Nov 2,
Madonna Fortin, Maryland
already a proud Vegan. no action is too little. please join us!! :)
already a proud Vegan. no action is too little. please join us!! :)
# 7,807:
11:44 pm PDT, Nov 1,
Brittany Jean Leimbach, Washington
Ive been Semi-Vegetarian(only eating seafood) for 5 years now.. And i have slowly been cutting out diary products and such... so today im going to try to be VEGAN for a month and see how it goes !!! wish me luck! ..
Ive been Semi-Vegetarian(only eating seafood) for 5 years now.. And i have slowly been cutting out diary products and such... so today im going to try to be VEGAN for a month and see how it goes !!! wish me luck! ..
# 7,806:
2:53 pm PDT, Nov 1,
Stiliani Karameros, Greece
I am sometimes really ashamed to be a human being. The animal cruelty is beyond my imagination! We all need to watch the moovie "earthlings" to understand. Please stop eating meat!!!
I am sometimes really ashamed to be a human being. The animal cruelty is beyond my imagination! We all need to watch the moovie "earthlings" to understand. Please stop eating meat!!!
# 7,805:
1:21 pm PDT, Nov 1,
Barbara Recker, Pennsylvania
# 7,804:
10:06 am PDT, Nov 1,
Tami O, New York
I hardly eat meat now.....so I am going to try my hardest to go vegitarian then vegan- gotta get the hubby to do it to
I hardly eat meat now.....so I am going to try my hardest to go vegitarian then vegan- gotta get the hubby to do it to
# 7,803:
7:10 am PDT, Nov 1,
Linda Collins, Indiana
I have been a vegan now for 12 DAYS and i've never felt better physically or spiritualy. CONGRATS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS ACCEPTED THE 30 DAY CHALLENGE!!!
I have been a vegan now for 12 DAYS and i've never felt better physically or spiritualy. CONGRATS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS ACCEPTED THE 30 DAY CHALLENGE!!!
# 7,802:
12:13 am PDT, Nov 1,
Liz O'Connell, Louisiana
# 7,801:
9:58 pm PDT, Oct 31,
Gina Channen, Mississippi
November 1 is going to be the beginning of my new life as a vegetarian! I'm so excited!
November 1 is going to be the beginning of my new life as a vegetarian! I'm so excited!