Animals are not ours to consume. They are living, breathing, feeling creatures who did not volunteer themselves to become another item on your plate! But shockingly, over 25 billion animals are killed every year for just that. How can this be justified? Especially when we are at a time when it is so easy - not to mention extremely beneficial to our health - to adopt a vegan diet. Here are some environmental reasons to go vegetarian or vegan: Twenty times more land is required to feed a meat eater than to feed a vegetarian. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of meat, but only 25 gallons to produce a pound of wheat. For every quarter-pound fast food burger made of beef, 55 square feet of land is consumed. Producing a single hamburger patty uses enough fossil fuel to drive a small car 20 miles and enough water for 17 showers. A typical pig factory farm generates a quantity of raw waste equal to that of a city of 12,000 people. Of course no one can challenge the ethical reasons for becoming a vegetarian or vegan, just look at the video 'Meet Your Meat' which is included on this website. How can anyone work in that industry, doing that to animals day after day? Who could live with themselves? By choosing to purchase meat and other animal-derived 'products', YOU are allowing this to happen. YOU are funding this cruelty, this murder. If there wasn't a demand for it, this sadistic industry would cease to exist. By choosing not become a vegan, YOU are as guilty as the 'farmers' who raise the animals and the 'people' who work in these slaughter houses. Stop letting yourself be desensitised. Open your eyes to what 'meat' really is. What is a burger, a sausage, a steak, a rasher or a drumstick? Don't let what it is called fool you. This was just a method devised to detach you from the truth. Detach you so much that you now feel nothing as you literally swallow hundreds of lives every year. They were once living beings, with as much a right to live as you and I. There is no excuse, GO VEGAN NOW!