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10. GM Chickens
Chickens have been genetically modified to grow as big & fast as possible, crippling
their legs & organs. If you grew as fast, by 2 years old you’d weigh 158 kg.
9. Pink Slime
Supermarket ground beef is made from pink slime. The ‘lean, finely textured beef’
is slaughterhouse scraps used in dog food & sprayed with ammonia so it’s safe for
human consumption.
8. Chick ***
Worldwide 200 million baby chicks are ground alive in egg factories every year. They travel
down conveyor belts & the male ones slide into a meat grinder where they’re crushed
to death.
7. Boiled alive
A slaughterhouse must kill 1,100 pigs hourly, which means pigs aren’t always stunned properly
before entering the ‘scalding tank’. Their skin peels off in boiling water when they’re
fully conscious.
6. Meat Glue
FDA guidelines state that ground beef, chicken nuggets & tacos only have to be 35% meat.
The other 65% can be chemicals, silicon dioxide, artificial flavoring… and meat glue.
5. Save the planet
The meat industry produces 14.5% of our greenhouse gases. If the whole world went veggie, we
could start reversing climate change & reduce our methane emissions by 24%.
Half of all supermarket poultry contains bird feces. 48% of chicken & turkey meat is contaminated
with E.coli – bacteria found in the colon that causes bloody diarrhea & kidney failure.
3. Live Longer
A veggie diet will give you almost a decade more of life than the rest of the population.
People that eat bacon regularly lose an hour of their life for every bacon sandwich they
eat.
2. Famine
Worldwide, 842 million people are starving. But going veggie will stop world hunger. If
livestock grain was given to people instead then 800 million people could be fed.
1. Cancer
Red & processed meat can give you cancer. 1/3rd of cancers are related to diet – if
you eat meat then you’re 20% more likely to die this year than those who don't.