Study: Meat Consumption on a Steady Decline in United States
By Nathan Runkle
As Americans are becoming more aware of farmed animal cruelty - and stomach-churning meat industry practices like using “pink slime” and “meat glue,” it’s no wonder the demand for meat is slowly sinking. According to a new study compiling data by the USDA, National Center for Health Statistics, United Nations, and the U.S. Census Bureau, the average meat eater consumed fewer land animals in 2011 than any year going back to 2000.
On the whole, Americans consumed about 56 million fewer land animals last year than in 2000. That’s 4 million fewer cows, 7.6 million pigs, 26.2 million chickens, 15.3 million turkeys, and 3.2 million ducks. Just from 2010, the average meat eater ate one fewer animal—a 4% decrease in one year. Meat consumption peaked in 2004, but has been on a decline ever since. Overall, the nationwide consumption of land animals dropped from 8.9 billion animals in 2005 to 8.2 billion in 2011.
While this drop in meat consumption is good news, the sad truth remains that billions of animals slaughtered for food continue to suffer intensive confinement, painful mutilations, brutal handling, and violent deaths. Visit ChooseVeg.com to find out how you can make a difference by switching to a cruelty-free, plant-based diet.
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Spirulina contains 334% more protein than beef, 475% more calcium than whole milk, 5756% more iron than spinach, and is a rich source of B-complex vitamins, containing 118% more B12 than raw beef liver.
Attention anemics, people with those pesky “protein deficiencies”, those convinced their bones will dissolve without dairy and those worried about getting 2.5 micrograms of B12.
Your argument is invalid because spirulina.
“Nonhuman animals — cows, cats, chickens, fishes, dogs, and so on — are unique individuals who don’t want to suffer or die. They deserve our respect, but we treat them like things. We use and kill animals for food, clothing, entertainment, and other reasons. Why? In well over 99% of cases, the answer isn’t necessity — it’s pleasure, convenience, or tradition (also taste). The tragic result is that billions of animals needlessly suffer and die every year. The solution to this atrocity begins with you. Always choose foods, products, and activities that don’t require nonhuman animals to be used or killed.”
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Inside a pig farm. Animals are not objects; don’t support treating them as if they are.
why dairy and eggs still = death for animals
i’ve had a couple of requests to post my ask response from yesterday so people can reblog it, so here it is:
the thing is, the milk and eggs you eat are not dead animals, but many animals suffer and die in the making of those products (and others).
mother cows have a very strong bond with their calves, and go through what could only be described as torture when their babies are taken away from them immediately, over and over, so they can produce milk for human consumption. their daughters can expect the same as them, and their sons can expect to be confined immobile inside a crate for a matter of months before they are slaughtered in the veal industry.
male chicks can expect even less of a life, and are either ground up alive hours after hatching or bagged by the hundreds and thrown in dumpsters.
not to mention, sheep on wool farms have been bred to produce more and more wool, causing them to have serious skin and insect problems, which farmers have tried to remedy in may horrific ways, including “mulesing,” where skin on their butts is removed without anesthetic so the bugs have nowhere to burrow.
Ok, please be kind! First little comic thing. I don’t yet know what style I want to do them in, or if i want to do them colour, black and white or what. Urghh. Unhappy with the speech placement, and my handwriting could use some improvement.
Uhm, anyway! So, this is something someone put as a FB status the other day. I was so taken aback by the stupidity, I thought someone had actually hacked their facebook!THIS IS PERFECT, YOU COULD DO IT IN COLOUR IF YOU WANT BUT IT IS ABSOLUTELY PERFECT
I love it! Recognised your style immediately :3. Caaan I share it on facebook with a link to your tumblr? :3
Except eating meat isn’t condemning mass enslavement and slaughter, it’s endorsing it.
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INTERMIX sells fur from China, where dog pelts are frequently unlabeled and mixed in with others (2,000,000 dogs & cats die annually in China for the fur trade).
If this doesn’t bother you, don’t sign the petition.
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