Good reasons to go vegan

• Egg laying battery hens spend their entire lives in a space smaller than a sheet of notebook paper.
• Humans are the only animals that drink milk beyond infancy.
• There's no such thing as a "mystery vegetable".
• Cruelty free products are easy to find.
• You don't get salmonella from eating vegan cookie dough.
• Animal-free circuses smell better.
• Animal-free farms smell better.
• Free range chickens are not required to have access to the outdoors or more than 3' of living space.
• Veal calves live their lives in crates too small to turn around in Vegetables don't bleed.
• Fake furs don't require special storage.
• Studies have revealed that consuming dairy does not reduce your risk of bone breaks.
• Livestock farm subsidies eat up your tax dollars.
• Regular bowel movements are a good thing.
• Pesticides concentrate in animal flesh. Livestock feed may legally have more pesticides than human grade food.
• Cotton and fake leather do not need to be dry cleaned.
• Less land is required to produce vegetables. It takes many pounds of grain to make one pound of animal flesh.
• Trapping snares companion animals, too.
• Animals whose populations are hunted breed more frequently and have larger litters to compensate for their losses.
• Animals would NOT run rampant if veganism became the norm. Factory farmed animals are bred excessively to keep up with consumer demand. If we stop buying, they'll stop overbreeding and the numbers will go down.
• Meat is full of antibiotics. Animals in overcrowded conditions are more likely to become ill, so large quantities of antibiotics are placed in their food in an attempt to stave off infection. This practice contributes to the evolution of heartier bacteria.
• Hunting orphans baby animals.
• You'll be the only one without food coma on Thanksgiving.
• There's no reason not to!
• Male dairy calves are killed at a young age for veal. BGH. Bovine Growth Hormone causes grotesque enlargement of the udders so they may drag on the ground where the cows step on them as they walk.
• Meat and dairy are wasteful. The world could be fed on what we feed animals to create animal derived food.
• Ecoli comes from animal feces and is found in hamburger. Think about it.
• You won't have to wonder if your fur came from a domestic cat or dog. Many lower cost furs are imported dog and cat fur. German shepherds and golden retrievers are the most popular breeds for coats.
• Wean yourself. Lactose intolerance is widespread and natural.
• Leather pollutes the environment. Ground waters near tanneries have elevated levels of arsenic.
• Let your diet show your non-violent ethic.
• Veganism reduces your risk of heart disease.
• To be called a vegan is a compliment.
• Vegan foods are all cholesterol free.
• Chickens, both factory farmed and free-range, have their beaks cut of with a hot wire and no anesthesia.
• Baby cows are stolen from their mothers shortly after birth so they won't drink their "valuable" milk.
• Factory farmed turkeys have been bred to have such grotesquely huge chests, they can no longer breed on their own.
• Animals confined in cages on fur farms often exhibit stress related cannibalism.
• Just because an animal has "lived a good life" is no reason to shoot him.
• Ronald does not need to sell one more burger.
• Vegetables are cheap.
• No one has ever become obese eating apples.
• You'll have a great excuse not to eat head cheese or haggis.
• When everybody's finally vegan, we'll shut up.
• Carrots don't have gristle.
• Milk, it does no body good-except the corporate CEOs who promote it. Don't accept nutrition information from a for-profit industry.
• Dairy cows and egg hens end up at the slaughterhouse, too.
• Milk begins at the "rape rack".
• Protein balancing is a myth. If you're eating a reasonable vegan diet, your proteins will balance themselves.
• Genetically, humans and chimpanzees are more closely related than African elephants and Indian elephants. Humans are animals, too. Don't eat your brethren.
• Cheeseless pizza doesn't burn the roof of your mouth.
• Eating soy reduces your risk of reproductive cancers.
• Your veganism can save 35 animals a year.
• The draize eye test involves holding an animal's eye open and dousing it with caustic chemicals.
• Animals in labs are held in restraining devices and may break their own necks trying to get away.
• Male layer chicks are seen as useless and are killed shortly after birth, often by being discarded in trash bags to be crushed to death by the weight of their brothers.
• There is evidence that milk consumption inhibits iron absorption.
• Low fat/high fiber vegan foods don't give you the after-meal energy slump of high fat meats and dairy products.
• Dairy contributes to excessive mucous.
• Vegan food is exciting. Discover tempeh, seitan, and nutritional yeast.
  Going vegan reduces your risk of impotence. Clogged arteries may inhibit your ability to...perform.
• You won't be supporting the slaughterhouse.
• It's easier to maintain a healthy weight on a vegan diet.
• Meat and dairy products contain no fiber.
• High fiber vegan foods help reduce your risk of colon cancer.
• The LD50 test is a chemical test in which animals are given a toxin in increasing dosages until 50% of the test population has been killed.
• Slaughterhouse workers have the highest rate of job dissatisfaction of any commercial industry.
• Cows often receive accidental shocks from milking equipment.
• Cosmetic and household product testing is not required by law.
• There is growing evidence that milk may contribute to osteoporosis.
• Don't believe the hype-the egg, dairy, and meat industries are just large corporations with well-funded advertising campaigns.
• Sick and injured animals are discarded on dead piles instead of receiving veterinary care.
• Unparalleled peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. Write for the recipe.
• All religions allow you to eat vegetables.
• Vegan is easier to spell than vegetarian.
• Because you don't want to take orders from Colonel Sanders.
• Your dog won't get nervous when you fatten him up.
• Hen house workers have more frequent lung problems due to elevated ammonia levels in chicken rearing facilities.
• Eggs have gas-permeable shells (see above).
• Veggie burgers don't contain veins and lymphatic fluid.
• Dairy cows are kept in a constant state of pregnancy and lactation to keep up with the human demand for milk. Like any mammal, cows only give milk when pregnant or nursing.
• Veal calves are kept anemic to make their flesh a pale color.
• Dairy products made with stomachs don't belong in yours. Cheese is curdled using rennet, aka sheep's stomach.
• Tofutti takes longer to melt on a hot day.
• Bulls have their horns sawed off without anesthesia.
• Shellfish are nature's garbage filters.
• Cotton sweaters don't itch.
• Fish don't like to be hung by their face on a hook.
• Female pigs with litters are kept in pens too small to move in.
• Male livestock animals are castrated without anesthesia.
• Wool smells bad when it gets wet.
• Vegetables don't have to designate that they're dolphin safe.
• There are no international treaties banning broccoli hunting.
• Soybeans don't crow at dawn.
• Animals on fur farms are often killed by anal electrocution.
• Animals in the slaughterhouse hear the screams of those being slaughtered before them as they move toward their own deaths.
• Pigs scream in unison when they hear one of their own being killed.
• To be slaughtered, chickens are hung by their feet and run through a mass production neck slicer machine.
• Research dog D-11.

The animals don't need any of our excuses. Go vegan today.