you are what you eat

You are what you

eat

Threat to the planet

Pollution

Water, grain, petrol,pesticide, drug usage

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Environmental impactwater usage

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Environmental impactland destruction and extinction

Rainforest destruction for grazing

1. http://www.chooseveg.com/extinction.asp

Environmental impactland destruction and extinction

http://www.chooseveg.com/extinction.asp

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Environmental impactglobal warming

Raising animals for food generates more green-house gases than all the cars and trucks worldwide1

1. http://www.chooseveg.com/global-warming.asp Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars. UN News Centre, 2006.

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Relative fossil fuel usage

•Manure

• Cow burps and flatulence

• Fossil fuels

Animals endure enormous pain and suffering on factory farms

Confined - can barely move

Veal calves chained by the neck in small stalls

Up to 13 hens crammed in a single cage

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Animals endure enormous pain and suffering on factory farms

Denied veterinary care - profitability

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Hen with a diseased eye Many pigs die from untreated illnesses brought on by poor living conditions

Animals endure enormous pain and suffering on factory farms

Mutilated without painkillers

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De-beaking is very painful for chicks Piglets are castrated, have their teeth clipped and tails cut off without anaesthesia

Animals endure enormous pain and suffering on factory farms

Slaughtered

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Some cattle have their throats slit while fully conscious

Support Meat-free Mondays!If each South African goes meat free 1 day a week:• 11,200 cows• 2 million chickens• 10,000 pigs• 22,300 sheep

saved WEEKLY1

1. Compassion in World Farming www.support.mtm.co.za

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