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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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# 150:
8:43 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Carmen Rico, Canada
We are the living graves of murdered beasts,slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. We never pause to wonder at our feasts, if animals, like men, can possibly have rights. We pray on Sundays that we have light, to guide our footsteps on the path we tread. We're sick of war, we do not want to fight-the thought of it now fills our hearts with dread, and yet-we gorge ourselves upon the dead. Like carrion crows we live and feed on meat,regardless of the suffering and the pain we cause by doing so, if thus we treat defenceless animals for sport or gain, how can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for. We pray for it o'er hecatombs of slain, to God, while outraging the moral law, thus cruelty begets its offspring- WAR. Georges Bernard Shaw ....I Carmen think the same.
We are the living graves of murdered beasts,slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. We never pause to wonder at our feasts, if animals, like men, can possibly have rights. We pray on Sundays that we have light, to guide our footsteps on the path we tread. We're sick of war, we do not want to fight-the thought of it now fills our hearts with dread, and yet-we gorge ourselves upon the dead. Like carrion crows we live and feed on meat,regardless of the suffering and the pain we cause by doing so, if thus we treat defenceless animals for sport or gain, how can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for. We pray for it o'er hecatombs of slain, to God, while outraging the moral law, thus cruelty begets its offspring- WAR. Georges Bernard Shaw ....I Carmen think the same.
# 149:
8:34 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Erin Jeffries, Arizona
Vegans are awesome!
Vegans are awesome!
# 148:
8:33 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Kaitlyn Wheeler, New York
# 147:
8:30 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Nathalie Huang, New York
# 146:
8:19 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Name not displayed, Illinois
# 145:
8:15 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Mike Hughey, California
# 144:
8:03 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Shannon Behric, Illinois
# 143:
7:58 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Belynda Zolotto, Australia
# 142:
7:58 pm PDT, Oct 12,
PATRICIA GRAY, Ohio
# 141:
7:56 pm PDT, Oct 12,
John Pedersen, Idaho
# 140:
7:55 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Peter Holzberger, Wisconsin
# 139:
7:54 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Sunni Wigand, Pennsylvania
i will not support this cruel exploitation of animals for human pleasure
i will not support this cruel exploitation of animals for human pleasure
# 138:
7:49 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Nancy G Walker, Texas
To living creatures, do no harm.
To living creatures, do no harm.
# 137:
7:47 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Richard Hollister, Arizona
Isn't the world sick enough for some of you?
Isn't the world sick enough for some of you?
# 136:
7:43 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Michelle Brown, Arizona
# 135:
7:39 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Sara Meighen-Wise, Washington
I have been a vegetarian for two decades now, and have raised a son to be one. I could not in good conscience eat animal flesh, especially knowing what I do about how animals are so badly treated.
I have been a vegetarian for two decades now, and have raised a son to be one. I could not in good conscience eat animal flesh, especially knowing what I do about how animals are so badly treated.
# 134:
7:31 pm PDT, Oct 12,
William Shanley, Connecticut
We are stewards of the global dominion and all nature is the same our nature. To preserve one, we must preserve it all.
We are stewards of the global dominion and all nature is the same our nature. To preserve one, we must preserve it all.
# 133:
7:30 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Rev Jim Oxyer, Kentucky
# 132:
7:29 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Donna Dove, California
# 131:
7:27 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Brigitte Edelmaier, Florida
# 130:
7:27 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Katherine Strouse, Pennsylvania
# 129:
7:26 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Felecia Crawford, Missouri
WELL I AM A VEG!MY FAMILY AND I HARDLY EAT MEAT BECAUSE SOME IT HAS WORMS IN IT ,IT SAY IT IN THE BIBLE IN THE OLD TESTOMENT.
WELL I AM A VEG!MY FAMILY AND I HARDLY EAT MEAT BECAUSE SOME IT HAS WORMS IN IT ,IT SAY IT IN THE BIBLE IN THE OLD TESTOMENT.
# 128:
7:22 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Naresh R. Shah, West Virginia
# 127:
7:19 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Brenda Suddeth, Oklahoma
# 126:
7:19 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Linda Cope, Idaho
Even if you don't believe in the morality of this issue - which I do, by the way - the huge preponderance of scientific evidence supports our turning to vegetarianism to help save the envionment.
Even if you don't believe in the morality of this issue - which I do, by the way - the huge preponderance of scientific evidence supports our turning to vegetarianism to help save the envionment.
# 125:
7:17 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Darae Danae Malone, Maryland
# 124:
7:17 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Bhavani Saravanan, Connecticut
This is an excellent choice. The vegetarian diet is healthier and kinder to the earth and the animals living on it.
This is an excellent choice. The vegetarian diet is healthier and kinder to the earth and the animals living on it.
# 123:
7:17 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Richard Smith, New Jersey
# 122:
7:09 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Cal Cole, Ohio
MMMMMMMMM; good
MMMMMMMMM; good
# 121:
6:59 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Becky McCrary, Tennessee
# 120:
6:54 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Fumiko Sakoda, Oklahoma
# 119:
6:49 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Keith Frank, New York
NESARA is theonly way to go!
NESARA is theonly way to go!
# 118:
6:48 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Verma Cagno, Ohio
# 117:
6:44 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Shirley Xistras, Oregon
I have practiced veg. for 4 yrs. and feel good about it.
I have practiced veg. for 4 yrs. and feel good about it.
# 116:
6:44 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Michael Merenda, California
# 115:
6:34 pm PDT, Oct 12,
John R jensen, New York
# 114:
6:34 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Irene Dowdy, Ohio
I am already eating this way and it is the best for your health.
I am already eating this way and it is the best for your health.
# 113:
6:32 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Martine Bamford, Massachusetts
# 112:
6:28 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Shawn Maple, New Mexico
I'm wanting to become one, so i need all the help i get. GO GO!!
I'm wanting to become one, so i need all the help i get. GO GO!!
# 111:
6:25 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Gary Thaler, Massachusetts
# 110:
6:20 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Kimberly Hoffman, Ohio
# 109:
6:18 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Name not displayed, Michigan
# 108:
6:16 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Name not displayed, Florida
# 107:
6:08 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Christin Wasson, Kansas
# 106:
6:07 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Jennie Boatman, Texas
I admire anyone who can go veg. I wish I could. I know it is the right thing to do. I want to...this is a step in the right direction...
I admire anyone who can go veg. I wish I could. I know it is the right thing to do. I want to...this is a step in the right direction...
# 105:
6:06 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Patricia Haverkamp, Texas
# 104:
6:06 pm PDT, Oct 12,
Maria D Gomez, Florida
# 103:
6:01 pm PDT, Oct 12,
ROBERT JONES, Virginia
# 102:
6:01 pm PDT, Oct 12,
R Saverio, California
I have avoided eating meat for many yrs now and will continue to do so until I no longer eat any fish or any kind of animal.
I have avoided eating meat for many yrs now and will continue to do so until I no longer eat any fish or any kind of animal.
# 101:
5:58 pm PDT, Oct 12,
LAURA KOENKE, Florida