Tell Your Friends to Go Vegan …

Written by PETA

Posted 02-04-2011

55 Comments

… without saying a word. PETA just launched a cool new infographic that's chock-full of interesting facts about meat—like how many animals suffer each year, how it harms the environment, and how seriously gross it is.

So check out the infographic and then let it do the talking when you share it with your friends. You can e-mail, text, post, or tweet it—however you like to tell people to love animals, not eat them.

Written by Michelle Sherrow

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Eating Animals, infographic

Recent Comments

slustudent93 commented:

10-29-2011 4:48 PM

Here is my problem. I am a person who in fact does eat meat and I am sick tired of hearing it from both sides. Everyone is turning this into a modern day crusade. People are going "you are evil if you eat meat" and others are going "vegans are freaks." Both sides want to change people for what they think is the better and this is just like the Crusades. In the Crusades Christians and Islamic peoples battle for years saying my side is better. And do you know what was the aftermath? Thousands of people died and neither side gained any ground whatsoever. Does this issue have to escalate this far? Can't we just meet together and discuss this like rational thinking people?
amanda64645 commented:

2-23-2011 3:52 PM

@lind i saw those too, and i also cry everytime - its extremely inhumane and repolsive
HYOJIN commented:

2-22-2011 11:39 PM

I can't understand why people keep eating meats. Please make it stop!
nancy commented:

2-22-2011 3:30 PM

There are a few posts about the bible and I want to add that when god said to eat the animals it was because he considered the people at the time to no longer be pure. It wasn't meant as a permanent way for mankind to be. I'm not religious and I don't take the bible literally. For people who do though, I've read this explanation.
nancy commented:

2-22-2011 3:24 PM

Hi tpeni1, I just want to point out that when you eat an animal, you're eating what was fed to the animal too. Believe me, what they are fed is worse than some produce that had pesticides. Also, you're getting the toxins from the foods in much more concentrated amounts in the tissues of the animals. So even if you ate food grown with pesticides, the quantity of toxic matter is much smaller if it's vegan. Anyway, aside from that I don't even eat food with pesticides. I spend extra money on organic food and cut back financially in other areas. What's more important than what you put in your body?
Jeremy commented:

2-22-2011 2:51 PM

John Doe - It's TENS OF BILLIONS, not TONS of BILLIONS. Reread.
PETA commented:

2-21-2011 4:49 PM

Doug-

Many cows remain conscious while they are hung up by their legs, shot in the head, or have their throats slit, and they scream in pain and struggle throughout the process. Unfortunately, numerous investigations have shown us that these conditions and methods are far from uncommon in slaughterhouses.

Humans also have no nutritional need for animal products; all our dietary needs, even those of infants and children, are best supplied by an animal-free diet. Our evolutionary ancestors were, and our closest primate relatives are, vegetarians, with the exception of chimpanzees who occasionally consume meat. Even then, a chimpanzee’s diet consists of 98% plant matter and the remaining 2% is almost entirely made up of insects. Human teeth and intestines are designed for eating and digesting plant foods.
tpeni1 commented:

2-21-2011 4:00 PM

Introduce me to a 150 year old vegetarian, and I may consider not eating meat, but even then the vegetables are grown with pesticides and fertilizers which make thme less than pure food too.
KAtelynn commented:

2-19-2011 4:39 PM

To Donald Alot of people dont beleiven the bible so dont say stuff regarding the bible..... Thants a bunch of bs to say that someone put birds on the earth so that people can kill and eat them.....
John Doe commented:

2-19-2011 3:52 AM

I have been reviewing their fun facts at the top of the page. I am by all means unbiased, but I by no means like liars. I reviewed there facts on how many animals were consumed per year, for one thing "tons of billions" is not a unit of measurement it is a figure of speech if any thing. Unless they mean one short ton 2000lbs therefore that means 2000 billion animals were consumed . I highly dout that United States produces two trillion units of consumable livestock. lets look at these figures from land animals *Inventories in the United States at the end of 1997 were absolutely: 403,000,000 chickens 99,500,000 cattle 59,900,000 hogs 7,600,000 sheep Now for aquaculture Country Million tonnes[18] China 30.61 India 2.47 Vietnam 1.20 Thailand 1.17 Indonesia 1.05 Bangladesh 0.91 Japan 0.78 Chile 0.67 Norway 0.64 United States 0.61 Other countries 5.35 Now if we examine from the posting United States merely consumes .61 million tonnes Now thats only if they mean tons of billion of animals were consumed. I can't possibly start to imagine where they are finding all of these animals if its any more than 1 ton (2000 pounds). But if any one has some thing to say to this please let it be what tons of billions even means!

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