Think about the following: What do you allow yourself to eat? Fish? Chicken? Lamb? Pig? Dog? Donkey? Swan? Dolphin? Panda? Budgerigar? Chipmunk? Human? .. Quite profoundly, where do you draw the line?? Why do you draw that particular line? Befriend an animal and learn its uniqueness, it's individuality. Give a chicken a name, and learn to love it, then strangle it yourself.. Leg of Lamb, leg of human, leg of your pet cat.. Some serious thinking may well be in order.. Meat Means Murder

Despite frequent claims contrarily, I wish to clearly emphasize here that veganism is most definitely not a diet..

It is a blatant statement of nonviolence and compassion toward other sentient beings.

Naturally though, it's implementation will have a profound effect on our diets, as

Dairy cows live an average of 4 or 5 years before assassination.. Yearly forced pregnancies to increase milk yield.. Thank-you.. bye-bye.. Steal your children and cut your throat.. Natural cows don't produce 50ls of milk daily.. Udders dragging on dirty floors..

the practice of veganism basically implies that we drop all items of animal origin from our shopping trolleys.. Not only the more obvious stuff like slabs of cow flesh, dead chicken wings and fish cadavers, but also dairy and egg produce, and will further require more thorough checking of ingredients in common household goods such as breads, cakes and soup mixes..

The need to drop the flesh habit may be somewhat clear already, but for the dairy, before you all raise your arms in protest, a little more thought is involved..

There has first to be a basic understanding of why these items are the cause of much suffering of individual members of other species..

"Which makes you queasier? Knowing your cheese was made from Rennet taken from the stomach of a slaughtered calf.. Knowing your cheese came from a cow dined on sterilized chicken droppings.. Or knowing your cheese came from a cow raised on grain that could have fed a hungry child??"

Milk is not just something which the cow happens to produce an abundance of for no apparent reason.. Milk is produced naturally by all mammal mothers after giving birth to their offspring. Pigs produce it, dogs, cats, rats, squirrels, bats, elephants,

Birds eggs are not food.. Chickens are birds.. Poor imprisoned sentient beings.. Why do we discriminate?.. Feed the park ducks on Sundays.. Come home to eat chicken.. Paradox.. Don't give children toy guns.. - teaching false values..

dolphins, seals and humans.. Cows are no exception. Under conditions outside of human intervention, a mammals milk will be destined for its offspring.

The other important dietary factor affected by adopting a vegan lifestyle, are birds eggs..

How much we just take for granted..

The Mallard Drake dunks his head, and thick little streams, that look like mercury, go gliding down his oily back. While all around him, there are stars in the water, where the raindrops fall.

Naturally though, veganism covers far more than just the boycotting of consumption of dairy and eggs.. The extent of our

If all of Heaven's, in a rage.. over one robin redbreast in a cage.. What pray will happen when.. Dies the billionth battery hen??

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