| I have been a vegan for over 9 months. I do not eat | | | | have artificially inseminated them so many times that |
| any meat, dairy, or animal products. | | | | when they hook them up to the milking tube their |
| It all started when I was on a spiritual journey. I started | | | | udders do not work anymore. Then, what do they do? |
| meditating daily and all of a sudden felt the urge to | | | | They ship them to the slaughter house. |
| stop eating meat. So, I became a vegetarian in 2003 | | | | The amount of food that is used to feed a cow its |
| and did that for a year. Then, I went back to eating | | | | whole life could feed a whole third world country. Now, |
| meat for a while. And then, back again to vegetarian. It | | | | which would you rather have? A cow, or a whole |
| was not until recently that I turned to being a vegan. | | | | country of people? |
| I was doing a project on vegetarianism and learned | | | | And that is not the least of it. On to chickens. They are |
| what happens to the animals. Wow, was that ever an | | | | molded to their cages and their beaks are cut off. The |
| eye opener. Do you know that cows do not just give | | | | beaks are cut off so they will not peck any other |
| milk at will? They have to be pregnant. How do they | | | | chicken. |
| get pregnant? Humans artificially inseminate them and | | | | Oh yeah, and a cow sleeps in its own poo. |
| make them pregnant. Then, they take the milk that | | | | So, why am I a vegan? Well, I think it is obvious now. |
| should be for the calf and feed it to us. After they | | | | |