Why We Shouldn't Eat Animals

Perhaps you have a pet at home. You treat this pet with care and love it with all your heart. Why don't you treat other mammals like this too? They have lives also. Everything has a right to live. When you buy meat from the store, you probably don't give it much thought. Animals raised for meat do not live a healthy, happy life. They are crammed into cages in farms where they can barely move. Poultry are fattened so much that they cannot fly and even if they were able to, they couldn't do so in their condition. Both chickens and turkeys have an elaborate way of communication and experience strong emotion. Why should we eat them? You can easily find grain substitutes that taste EXACTLY  like chicken or turkey. They're even better--- an animal doesn't have to die for it. This is how chickens are raised. How would you like it if you had to live like that? Consider this before buying chicken meat. When you get eggs, check for an organic/cage free label. This means the chickens were raised naturally.

You may consider pigs to be smelly and unsanitary, but that is false. Yes, they bathe in mud, but this is to cool down. However, pigs are clean apart from the mud, and will never urinate where they eat or sleep. Piglets depend on their parents for everything. Even adult pigs are loving. Sometimes a group will even snuggle each other. They need the sight an sound of each other to feel secure. 

Pigs are separated from their parents as piglets just to go to farms. A pig will spend its whole life alone in a cage with barely enough room to turn around at a farm. Can't you do without ham sandwiches? You may love meat, but remember, when you eat meat all you do is make your belly full. Wouldn't you rather have your heart full with the satisfaction of saving an animal? There are so many foods with protein that can be used instead of meat.

Pigs can be kept in these conditions or worse, with the piglets separated from their parents.

When you eat fish, you may think that all you are eating is one fish. This is not so. Hundreds of thousands of fish are caught and slaughtered in one net, along with other organisms. There are so many excess fish caught, but still killed. Also, other animals, such as dolphins, turtles and even seals can be caught in nets. In fact, there is one type of seal that is nearly extinct due to being caught in fishing nets. 

                We keep fish as pets. Why do we eat them? 

Why do we do this to our planet? Can you imagine oceans without fish? If this keeps up, that is what we shall have.

The Rainforest:

Rainforests are being destroyed as you read this blog. Millions of animals grow homeless and even on the verge of extinction. We are separate organisms, but are locked in the same web of life. When we destroy the rainforest, we destroy ourselves.  By helping in minor ways, you can change our future. Buy organic food, and, if you can, buy organic cotton clothes. You can also use recycled notebook paper and toilet paper(it is found at any local grocery store). To help all animals in general, buy products that state directly, 'Not tested on animals.'. 

    We must aim to preserve this beauty and prevent it from turning into a barren wasteland. Remember, you are what you eat. Every animal has feelings and is sensitive, and has a right to live. Animals should live and die in natural ways. When we treat animals respectfully, we practice world peace. You should treat animals should be treated the way you would want to be treated. To you, mistreating an animal should be almost the same significance as mistreating a human.