Even The Most Selfish Argument Is Not Working

It has been a few years from now since we first started to try influencing every person we met to become a vegan. We know we had some successes. Some have even become a suffer reducers.
But one day, after thousands of animal rights conversations, we understood that the debate, between us and the non vegan, wasn’t equal. No matter how hard we tried and how rational and comprehensive the arguments were, an argument will lose against motivation almost all the time. Humans have a motivation to consume animal products. They don’t have arguments, because there are no arguments that can justify consumption of animal products as you all know.

Humans are motivated to keep their habits, especially those which give them pleasure.
They enjoy chewing animals’ flesh so they have a motivation to keep doing it.
99.9% of the time, moral and rational arguments will lose to the violent pleasures of the narrow minded, ignorant, selfish humans.

Regardless of human’s education, age, number of read books, salary, where they are from etc - They all use exactly the same worn excuses. They all pull out the first justification that comes to their minds. They probably never even thought about what they say. It can not be that so many people are so stupid; they simply prefer not to think.
Humans are careless enough that they don’t even bother thinking of less ridicules excuses to proclaim, not to mention actually thinking about the “moral dilemma”. About Thinking of ways to help, I don’t even dream.

When your raw material is so miserable you should replace it don’t you? Well, we can’t think of a worst one than the human race. So what are you waiting for?

Even if the animal rights movement will give up on the vision of a non-speciesist world and give up on all the moral debate and will be focusing on the selfish arguments that exclude the animals from the equation, even then it is still hopeless. Even when people try to convince others to become vegan or vegetarian for their own benefit – exposing very harsh facts about the health hazards related with animal products consumption they won’t stop. Here are some facts. Please read it even if some of them are familiar to you. We want you to observe the absurdity of the situation and more importantly, the absurdity in continuing the efforts to convince humans to stop consuming animal products. They don’t stop when it kills them and their families! Do you really believe they would stop because it kills non-human animals?

Humans are too concentrated in self indulgence that they ignore the ignorable facts:

Consumption of animal products has been found to cause many diseases including: heart diseases, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, gallstones, appendicitis, constipation, angina, hemorrhoids, anemia, varicose veins, obesity and allergies. By contrast studies have shown that a vegan diet improves general health and greatly reduces the risk of developing these diseases. One study showed that vegetarians are likely to spend less than a quarter of the time that meat-eaters spend in hospitals.

Likelihood of a vegetarian reaching the age of 80 compared to a non-vegetarian: two times greater.

70% of food poisoning is caused by meat, and an estimated 4 out of 5 chickens sold on supermarkets are infected with salmonella.

A man who eats meat has a 50% greater chance of dying from a heart attack. A man who does not eat meat only has a 15% chance of dying from a heart attack.

Heart disease: more Americans die stroke than any other nation. 1 out of every 2 Americans will die from heart disease. Excess saturated fat (mostly from animals) and cholesterol (completely from animals) will be the cause in almost every case from heart disease, cancer.

Meat, and other animal products products are the primary cause of atherosclerosis (clogged arteries to the heart or brain) in non-smokers, making animal products the main culprit in heart attacks and strokes. vegetarian diets are associated with reduced risk for coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, colorectal cancer, lung cancer, kidney disease, obesity.

How frequently a heart attack kills in the U.S.: every 45 seconds.
Average U.S. man's risk of death from a heart attack: 50 percent.
Risk of average man who eats no meat: 15 percent.
Risk of average U.S. man who eats no meat, dairy or eggs: 4percent.

Male meat-eaters have a 50% chance of dying of a heart attack. Vegetarian males have a 4% risk.

Diseases of the heart and circulatory system are responsible for more than half of all deaths in the U.K. heart attacks kill 38% of all women and 40% of all men. The more animal fat consumed, the greater the risk. In countries where the diet is largely or wholly plant-based, heart diseases are rare.

Vegans are less likely to suffer strokes caused by coronary artery disease.

The “preventive potential” for all cancers is 80-90%, for both men and women. Diet accounts for 40% of all male cancers and 60% of all female cancers. The key dietary causes of cancer are overeating, fat and meat.

Populations on a high-meat diet are more likely to develop colon cancer than those on vegetarian diets. Vegetarians have lower death rates from colon and lung cancer.

Breast cancer: studies show that diets high in animal fat promote breast cancer tumors. Countries with plant-based diets have the lowest breast cancer mortality rates while the big meat-eaters such as Canada, United Kingdom, and America have the highest.

Vegetarian women have lower blood levels of estrogen, which has been shown to protect against breast cancer.

Studies have shown that an animal-based diet increases the risk of cancer. One study showed that eating pork more than once a week actually doubled the risk of contracting breast cancer.

Increased risk of fatal prostate cancer for men who consume meat, cheese, eggs and milk daily vs. sparingly of not at all: 3.6 times.
Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat meat daily compared to less than once a week: 3.8 times.
For women who eat eggs daily compared to once a week: 2.8 times.
For women who eat butter and cheese 2-4 times a week: 3.25 times.

Cancer-causing viruses can be carried in milk and eggs. There has been a corresponding increase in leukemia in cattle and humans over recent years, and a high consumption of dairy products has been found to be a prominent feature of leukemia patients.

Numerous studies indicate that a high-fat diet promotes breast cancer tumors. Nations like Thailand &el Salvador with low-fat, plant-based diets have the lowest breast cancer mortality rates while “high fat” countries such as the Netherlands, the united kingdom, Canada, Switzerland and the u.s. have the highest rates. Vegetarian women have lower blood levels of estrogen, which has been shown to protect against breast cancer.

Chicken and fish are not plants; substituting them for red meat will not save you from heart diseases, strokes, diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure or osteoporosis. A 3.5 ounce serving of beef contains 85 milligrams of cholesterol. a same-size piece of white chicken meat, skinned, also has 85 milligrams of cholesterol. Equivalent servings of pork, trout, or turkey can clog arteries with 90, 73, and 82 milligrams of cholesterol, respectively.

An animal based diet is invariably high in saturated fat, animal protein and cholesterol, which will raise the level of cholesterol in the blood - the warning signal for heart disease and stroke. Due to the meat-centered diet of most Americans, these diseases account for nearly 50% of all deaths in the U.S.

Vegetarians have cholesterol levels 14% lower than meat-eaters; vegans (those who don’t consume meat or dairy products) have levels 35% lower.

Vegan diets offer disease protection because of lower cholesterol and animal protein and higher folates, antioxidant vitamins and plant nutrients.

A vegan diet can reduce cholesterol levels (cholesterol is linked to heart disease) - fruit and vegetables contain none.

Animal protein makes the kidneys work harder, which can result in kidney damage — especially in diabetics.

Osteoporosis: excess animal protein (high in sulphur) causes acid load in the blood. To neutralize this load, calcium is leached from the bones in a study that compared bone loss in 1,600 women at 80, vegetarian women had lost only about half as much bone mineral as meat-eaters.

Too much protein can increase bone loss and lead to osteoporosis.

Diabetes is much less likely to be a cause of death in vegans. Vegans have lower rates of obesity, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, large bowel disorders, cancers and gallstones.

Hypertension (high blood pressure) in vegans is one third to one half that of meat eaters

Vegans are no more likely to suffer anemia than meat eaters.

Antioxidants protect against more than 60 diseases. Found mostly in fruit and vegetables.

Vegans have higher intakes of folic acid than omnivores.

Antibiotic overuse: weather extremes (especially during transport) and excess ammonia from animal excrement lead to respiratory illness and other diseases in animals. Agribusiness keeps intensively confined animals alive with antibiotics and vaccines. American factory farms also use chemicals, hormones and steroids to make animals grow larger and faster. "for sheer over prescription, no doctor can touch the American farmer." use of antimicrobial drugs for no therapeutic purposes— mainly to increase factory farm growth rates—has risen 50% since 1985. Many strains of pathogenic bacteria are growing resistant to numerous classes of antibiotics. Evidence implicates the widespread use of antibiotics in factory-farmed animals.

The excessive use of antibiotics in animal feed poses another risk to human health. Half of all antibiotics produced are fed to farm animals, both to combat disease and to promote faster growth and increased productivity. The result is that many diseases, including gonorrohea, meningitis, Enteric fever and sepitcamia, can develop resistance to antibiotics and become “superbugs”. Antibiotics should be used very carefully as prolonged use can have unpredictable effects and can weaken the body’s immune system.

Diabetes is sometimes caused by, in other cases aggravated by, a meat-based diet. A study of diabetics revealed that those who consumed a high-fiber, vegetarian diet required 73%less insulin therapy than those on animal-based diets.

Vegetarian women are less than one-fourth as likely as meat-eaters to get breast cancer, while vegetarian men have a 46 percent lower chance of suffering a heart attack. In addition, a vegetarian diet helps prevent strokes, osteoporosis, kidney stones, many cancers, diabetes, hypoglycemia, kidney disease, peptic ulcers, hernias, obesity, gallstones, hypertension, asthma, and many other diseases.

95% of all food poisoning comes from meat and animal products.

Meat contains an estimated 14 times as many pesticide residues as plant foods. Dairy products contain more than 5 times as many.

Other Ingredients in Animal Flesh:

Colon bacteria, E coli.
Uric acid.
Female hormones given so animals will gain water weight before being killed.
Homocysteine which causes heart disease.
Cholesterol which clogs arteries causing heart attacks and strokes.
Worms, tiny in fish, trichinella in pork.
Waste of other animals called wastelage mixed animal food.
Adrenalin hormone secreted in massive amounts by animals in transit and in slaughterhouses, a long protein enzyme not all of whose links are destroyed by cooking.
Other chemicals in the environment concentrate at the top of the food chain such as mercury, chromium, polychlorinated biphenols.
Insecticides in higher concentration than any other food.
antibiotics in such concentrations that animals build resistance to them.
Disease organisms like salmonella, listeria, toxoplasmosis, brucellosis, ptomaine.
Preservatives and food coloring agents.
Biochemicals such as methylcholanthrene and malanaldehyde created when meat is heated at high temperatures.
Excess protein causing kidney damage. Carnivores have kidneys five times larger than those of frugivorous humans.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century.

And still "Americans now spend more money on fast food -- $110 billion a year -- than they do on higher education. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos and recorded music – combined.

The human race is failing in a very simple task, feeding it self. Theoretically the world has about one acre of arable land per head of population, but it takes 1.4 acres to feed one person on a typical western meat-based diet: by contrast it takes only 0.2 acres to feed someone on a vegan diet.

A 10-acre farm can support 60 people growing soybeans, 24 people growing wheat, 10 people growing corn and only two producing cattle.

Number of people who could be adequately fed using land freed if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10%: 100 million

Raising animals for food is much less efficient than growing vegetables, grain, or beans. For example, a cow grazing on one acre of land produces enough meat to sustain a person two and a half months; soybeans grown on that same acre would nourish a person for seven years. 16 The beef in just one Big Mac represents enough wheat to make five loaves of bread.

Amount of grain needed to end extreme hunger - 40 million tonns. Amount of grain fed to animals in the West - 540 million tons.

The process of converting plant proteins into animal proteins is extremely wasteful:

Number of human beings who could be fed by the grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock: 1,300,000,000.
Percentage of oats grown in United States eaten by livestock: 95.
Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 90
Percentage of carbohydrate wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 99
Percentage of dietary fiber wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 100
Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on 1 acre of land: 20,000
Pounds of beef that can be produced on 1 acre of land: 165
Percentage of U.S. agricultural land used to produce beef: 56
Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce 1 pound of feedlot beef: 16
Pounds of protein fed to chickens to produce 1 pound of protein as chicken flesh: 5 pounds
Pounds of protein fed to hogs to produce 1 pound of protein as hog flesh: 7.5 pounds

“imagine sitting down to an eight-ounce steak. Then imagine the room filled with 45 to 50 people with empty bowls in front of them. For the 'feed cost' of your steak, each of their bowls could be filled with a full cup of cooked cereal grains."

It takes 2,500 gallons of water, 12 pounds of grain, 35 pounds of topsoil and the energy equivalent of one gallon of gasoline to produce one pound of feedlot beef.

Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of wheat: 25

Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of California beef: 5,000

95-99 percent of toxic chemicals residue in the American diet come from animal sources.

Amount of water used in production of the average cow: sufficient to float a destroyer.

Raising animals for food consumes more than half of all the water used in the United States. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of meat, but only 25 gallons to produce a pound of wheat. The amount of water used in the production of the average steer could float a destroyer; the amount used to produce a single hamburger patty is enough for 17 showers.

It takes 3 kilos of grain to produce 1 kilo of eggs. Each battery egg takes about 180 liters of water to produce. The poorest people on earth have only 10 liters of water a day.

Nearly half of the total amount of water used annually in the U. S. goes to grow feed and provide drinking water for cattle and other livestock. Producing a pound of grain-fed steak requires the use of hundreds of gallons of water. Producing a pound of beef protein often requires up to fifteen times more water than producing an equivalent amount of plant protein.

Raising animals for food consumes more than half of all water used in the U.S. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of meat, but only 25 gallons to produce a pound of wheat. A totally vegetarian diet requires 300 gallons of water per day, while a meat-eating diet requires more than 4,000 gallons of water per day.

It takes 3000 liters (660 gallons) of water to 'grow' 1 kg of beef. Through decomposing waste and flatulence, livestock are also responsible for 20% of greenhouse gas emissions.

A kilo of feedlot beef takes about 50 times the water to produce as a kilo of soya beans or rice. Even chicken, the most "efficient" modern meat industry uses twice as much water per kilo as soybeans or rice.

Potatoes 500 litres
: Wheat 900 litres
: Alfalfa 900 litres
: Sorghum 1110 litres
: Maize 1400 litres
: Rice 1910 litres
: Soya beans 2000 litres
: Chicken 3500 litres
: Beef (feedlot) 100,000 litres

Organic waste from cattle and other livestock, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and agricultural salts and sediments are the primary non-point source of water pollution in the U.S. Cattle produce nearly 1 billion tons of organic waste each year. The average feedlot steer produces more than 47 pounds of manure every twenty-four hours. Nearly 500,000 pounds of manure are produced daily on a standard 10,000- head feedlot. This is the rough equivalent of what a city of 110,000 would produce in human waste.

Asian adults consume between 300 and 400 pounds of grain a year; three-fourths or more of the diet of the average Asian is composed of grain. A middle-class American, by contrast, consumes over a ton of grain each year, 80 percent of it through eating cattle and other grain-fed livestock.

The world has enough for everyone’s need but not for everyone’s greed.

Human’s immediate pleasure is more important to them than their children and their children’s children.
It finds expression in the absolute ignorance from the ecological effects of animal products consumption.

Rainforests are being destroyed at a rate of 125,000 square miles per year to create space to raise animals for food. Fifty-five square feet of land are consumed for every quarter pound fast-food burger made of rainforest beef (note: 1,000 species a year are forced into extinction due to destruction of rainforest habitat).

Between 1960 and 1985 alone, nearly 40 percent of all Central American rain forests were destroyed to create cheap grazing land for cows later served on North American and European plates.

If tomorrow people in the U.S. will make a radical change away from their meat-centered diets, 200 million acres could be returned to forest.

Meat production has led to the erosion of billions of acres of formerly productive farmland and to the devastation of rainforests.

The meat industry is directly responsible for 85 percent of all soil erosion in the U.S., because so much grain is needed to feed animals being raised for food. In the U.S., animals are fed more than 80 percent of the corn we grow and more than 95 percent of the oats. The world's cattle alone consume a quantity of food equal to the caloric needs of 8.7 billion people -- more than the entire human population on Earth.

The United States has lost one third of its topsoil. An estimated six of the seven billion tons of eroded soil is directly attributable to grazing and unsustainable methods of grazing. Each pound of feedlot steak costs about 35 pounds of eroded American topsoil.

Intensive animal agriculture uses a disproportionate amount of fossil fuels. Supplying the world with a typical American meat-based diet would deplete all world oil reserves in just a few years.
It now takes the equivalent of a gallon of gasoline to produce a pound of grain fed beef in the United States. The annual beef consumption of an average American family of four requires more than 260 gallons of fuel and releases 2.5 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, as much as the average car over a six month period.

Factory farming is a waste of resources. It is estimated that it takes 2.8lbs oF grain, 0.19 gallons of gasoline, and 375 gallons of water to produce one pound of chicken. One-half of all the energy used in American agriculture is used to produce meat.

A single hamburger patty requires enough fuel to drive 20 miles and causes the loss of 5 times its weight in top-soil.

Factory farming production contributes significantly to the production of three gases -- carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane -- whose build-up in the atmosphere blocks heat from leaving the earth and thereby causes global warming.

More CO2 is created by our highly mechanized agriculture which uses up huge amounts of fossil fuels. With 70 percent of all U.S. grain production now devoted to livestock feed, the energy burned just to produce the feed represents a significant addition to CO2.

Factory farms dump raw sewage into rivers and streams, making animal agriculture the leading contributor to water pollution. In the U.S. intensive confinement farming contributes to 70% of river pollution and 49% of lake pollution. Farmed animals produce 68,000 pounds of manure per second, 5 tons of manure for every U.S. person and 130 times as much fecal matter as the entire human population. In 1996, u.s. factory farms generated 1.4 billion tons of manure, which pollutes waterways more than all other industrial sources combined.

Livestock and poultry in the United States produce 158 million tons of phosphate loaded, feed additive and drug containing manure per year.

Pollution: factory farms dump raw sewage into rivers and streams, making animal agriculture the leading contributor to water pollution. 36% of rivers and streams and 35% of lakes in the U.S. are contaminated.
In the U.S. intensive confinement farming contributes to70% of river pollution and 49% of lake pollution.

Organic waste from cattle and other livestock, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and agricultural salts and sediments are the primary non-point source of water pollution in the U.S.

Cattle produce nearly 1 billion tons of organic waste each year. The average feedlot steer produces more than 47 pounds of manure every twenty-four hours. Nearly 500,000 pounds of manure are produced daily on a standard 10,000- head feedlot. This is the rough equivalent of what a city of 110,000 would produce in human waste.

A typical pig factory generates raw waste equal to that of a city of 12,000 people. In fact, the meat industry is the single greatest polluter of U.S. waters.

Animals raised for food produce 130 times as much excrement as the entire human population, roughly 68,000 pounds a second.

North Carolina's 7,000,000 factory-raised hogs create four times as much waste - stored in reeking, open cesspools - as the state's 6.5 million people. The Delmarva Peninsula's 600 million chickens produce 400,000 tons of manure a year.

The US Environmental Protection Agency blames current farming practices for 70% of the pollution in the nation's rivers and streams. The agency reports that runoff of chemicals, silt, and animal waste from US farmland has polluted more than 173,000 miles of waterways.

Pfiesteria, a microscopic organism that feeds off the phosphorus and nitrogen found in manure, is a lethal toxin harmful to both humans and fish. In 1991 alone, 1,000,000,000 (one billion) fish were killed by pfiesteria in the Neuse River in North Carolina. In 1995, 25 million gallons of animal waste spilled from an eight-acre lagoon into North Carolina's New River, killing 10 million fish and closing 364,000 acres of coastal wetlands to shell-fishing.

The meat industry causes more water pollution in the United States than any other industry because animals raised for food produce 130 times more excrement than the entire human population - 86,600 pounds per second. A typical pig factory farm generates raw waste equivalent to that of a city of 12,000 people.

Animal waste is rich in nitrogen, much of which escapes (as ammonia) into the air from waste storage pits and from field application of animal wastes. Rain then deposits the nitrogen onto water, and onto land where it can run into waterways. Excessive nitrogen feeds algae growth and depletes the oxygen supply, killing fish and other aquatic life.

Preliminary analysis indicates that hog factories pour more nitrogen pollution through the air alone into eastern North Carolina estuaries than all of the discharges from municipal waste water treatment plants and industrial factories combined.

In 1996, U.S. factory farms produced 1.4 billion tons of animal waste—130 times more than humans did.5 The waste produced in a single year would fill 6.7 million train boxcars—enough to circle the Earth 12 1/2 times.

Harvard nutritionist Jean Mayer estimates that reducing meat production by just 10 percent in the U.S. would free enough grain to feed 60 million people.
The Environmental Protection Agency reports, pollutes American waterways more than all other industrial sources combined. Meat production has also been linked to severe erosion of billions of acres of once-productive farmland and to the destruction of rainforests.

Environmentalists are so hypocrites. They were shocked after the Exxon Valdez catastrophe while causing every single day by them-selves a much worse ecological disaster. Not to mention the animals’ suffer they directly responsible for. In Africa, millions of wild animals have died of thirst or starvation after finding their migratory paths blocked by fences built to contain cattle.

Now, the industries which created this miserable state of affairs plan to expand their operations in nations already struggling with hunger and environmental distress. They are aided in these aims by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and -- shamefully -- the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Facing declining markets and increasing regulations in the United States and the European Union, the livestock industries aim to create new demand for meat and other animal-based foods among people who have traditionally eaten more healthy diets rich in plant-based foods. This is dietary racism. In order to meet this artificially created demand, multinational corporations, which control the production of meat and other animal-based foods, plan to expand their operations in Africa, Asia, and regions of South America. This is the latest phase of agricultural colonialism.
Agricultural colonialism began in the era of European imperialism, when lands previously devoted to the production of food for local and regional consumption were forcibly converted to the production of commodities for export. In the post-colonial era, there have been three phases of agricultural colonialism. The first phase was the so-called "green revolution," when farmers were encouraged to use artificial pesticides, fertilizers, and "improved" seeds. The second phase, which is ongoing, involves biotechnology and genetically engineered seeds. The third phase, which has just begun, is the so-called "livestock revolution," which will involve increasing the production of meat and other animal-based foods in low-income nations.
All of these phases of agricultural neo-colonialism have had two things in common: (1) they have been promoted as "hunger relief" and (2) the true beneficiaries have been greedy corporations rather than hungry people. In each instance, the focus has been on the production of commodities for export, with both the control and the profits remaining in the hands of the wealthy providers of the inputs needed to produce those commodities. This new phase of agricultural colonialism may prove to be the most dangerous. Because the production of meat requires more plants, water, and energy per calorie than the cultivation of plants for direct consumption by people, any increase in global meat production will mean a net decrease in the food available for hungry and malnourished people. A few will eat more meat while many others will have less food. Those who increase their meat consumption will not turn out to be so lucky in the long run, because they will have an increased risk of developing the diseases associated with heavy consumption of animal-based foods. Because the inputs needed to produce meat are so expensive, the providers of capital will gain even more power over small farmers and low-income nations.
In addition to further endangering and disempowering the people of impoverished nations, the expansion of industrial animal agriculture in those nations will have environmental consequences which will hurt everyone. Industrial animal agriculture already produces more water pollution than all other human activities combined. Significant increases in animal agriculture will make a bad situation even worse. Because industrial animal agriculture utilizes high levels of water, water resources will be increasingly depleted at the same time as they are increasingly polluted. At the same time, soil degradation associated with intensive grazing will increase desertification. All of this will greatly hasten the emerging worldwide water crisis.
Biodiversity is also threatened by plans to double meat production in the next two decades. It takes, on average, ten pounds of grain, maize, or soya to produce one pound of meat. More and more fields will be converted to the production of genetically engineered livestock feed, leaving less and less land for sustainable cultivation of diverse food crops for people.
This is an issue which demonstrates the truth of the idea that social, economic, and environmental problems are all related. People, animals, and the environment will all be severely damaged so that corporations can earn profits by vending products which are known to cause disease in those who consume them. Prevent food from millions. Destroyed the environment and of course torture billions of innocent animals.

We have to stop them!