vegan stuff

now, I know I'm not vegan anymore, but I found this and I thought that
daharja
put things very well to explain to all those folks out there what it's about. So I decided to share:


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The truth is, the animal food industries - meat, dairy and eggs - have
built their empires on cruelty. Most of our food animals are treated in
a way that you would never treat a cat or a dog. There are millions of
caged chickens who will never see the sun or even flap their wings. You
would never keep a hen in a shoe box for its whole life, would you? Yet
this is what these animals must suffer. You would never skin a cow
while it is fully conscious, yet this happens every day in
slaughterhouses all across the western world.

Look at the meat
on your plate. It was once a living, breathing animal. Once it had
feelings. Once it could feel pain, and pain was its lot in life. Once
it had needs, yet those needs were forsaken. Once it longed to stretch
out its limbs and lie warm in the sun. Those longings were never
fulfilled. Once, maybe, the dead cow on your plate had a calf that it
longed to nurse. Yet that calf was torn away and stuffed into a veal
crate, chained so that it couldn't move while its mother mourned her
loss.

Once the fish you eat swam freely in the sea, glinting
silver beneath the waves. Once the tuna you had for lunch last week
dived and leaped, chased by dolphins that were netted and killed just
as the tuna was netted and killed. Once the salmon ran and the bears
fished the salmon and left their remains in the forests for the trees
to feed from and grow. Now the salmon are disappearing, the bears are
all but gone, and the trees and the forests die.

Once our seas
were full of fishes of so many different shapes and sizes and colours.
The seas are almost fished out now. Most of the fish have gone, and the
fishermen let their nets rot on the sand and turn to low-paying jobs to
support their struggling families. Once the slaughterhouse workers were
well paid and respected - now they have one of the highest injury rates
of any occupation, and most are denied even award rates or safe
conditions. They live below the poverty line, as the massive
conglomerations that employ them get fatter as you get fatter from the
caged animals that suffer for their profits.