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EarthSave
Orientation
Presentation by: Dick Morris: ESIE Chair
EarthSave Inland Empire (ESIE), a Chapter of
EarthSave International, a 501-C3 non-profit
corporation, headqtrs. in Santa Cruz, CA
 30 min. – PBS documentary: “Diet for a New America”
 15 min. – Computer Presentation by Dick Morris
 15 min. – Q & A
Presentation Time: 60 min. (includes PBS documentary)
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Orientation
 Diet For A New America video
 Changing Diet is Very Hard
 What is EarthSave?
 What Are Vegan Foods?
 Why Eat More Vegan Foods?
Health of Humans & other Animals
Ethical & Environmental Reasons
 Problems from Eating Animals
 More on EarthSave’s history
 Joining EarthSave
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What Is EarthSave?
An organization that advocates eating more
wholesome vegan foods and less of those foods
derived from animals. This change induces (in
all life on Earth) healthier, happier, more stress
free and longer lives! It reduces air, water and
soil pollution! It greatly reduces our use of water
and land for growing food and helps to save the
Earth's rain forests! We also advocate taking
compassionate action towards all life on Earth!
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What Are Vegan Foods?
Fruits
Vegetables
Nuts
Seeds
Grains
Legumes
100’s of delightful, delicious combinations
(Breads, Soups, Desserts, Smoothies, etc.)
From stores, restaurants and recipe books
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Vegan Food Reasons
All Lives (Human & non)
 Healthier
 Happier
 Less Pain
 Longer
Reduce Factory Farm suffering
*(shown only in 60 min. DFNA)
 *Pigs: Stacked single cages
 Male Calves: Chained in small veal stalls
 *Chickens: Debeaked, crammed together, small stacked cages
 All: Fed grains, antibiotics & ground up animals - TSE
 Still conscious while being slaughtered
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Environmental Reasons for Eating Vegan Food
Reduce pollution: Factory Farms & Feedlots
Because no sewage systems
 Animal Urine, Feces & Nitrates into
 Soil
 Water – Fish Kills, Blue Baby Syndrome (death)
 Sea – 7,000 sq. mile dead zone (FR, p – 243)
 Air Pollution
 Methane & ammonia gas rising from manure piles
 Livestock passing gas: 100 gals./cow/day (Mad Cowboy)
Save the Rain Forests
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Healthier Humans
ADA – Thrive on a Healthy Vegan diet (1998?)
 All nutrition except B-12 (Nutritional Yeast or supplements)
 Fiber: Easy colon evacuations - only in vegan foods
These don’t eat meat, dairy or eggs
Horses
Giraffes
Elephants
Rhinoceros
Gorillas
Vegetarian: 7 – 10 yrs. longer life (Press-Enterprise)
Healthy Vegan Diet: ? More Life
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Eating Animal Problems
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CJD from Cows Eating Cows (FR, p. 144 – 150)
Cancer Causing Hormones (FR, p - 142)
Factory Farm conditions = diseased livestock (FR, p - 120)
Feeding Antibiotics = Resistant bacteria (FR, p - 138)
Sped up slaughtering, 1996: HACCP (FR, p. 136 - 138)
Food Irradiation (FR, p. 121 - 123)
 2.5 million chest X-rays
 Destroys vitamins (A, B1, C, K and E)
 Forms potentially cancer causing compounds
 Food borne diseases (FR, p. 124 - 138)
 E coli 0157 (FR, p - 124), (NY Times: 7/19/02)
 1993: Jack in the Box - 4 children died, hundreds ill.
 1997: 25 mil. lbs. of beef recalled
 July 2002: 19 ill, 19 mil. lbs. of beef recalled
Campylobacter (FR, p - 127)
Salmonella (FR, p - 130)
7/17/2015 Listeria (FR, p - 132)
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Ethics – Pythagoras
“As long as humans continue to be
ruthless destroyers of lower living
beings, we will never know health
or peace. For as long as we
massacre animals, we will kill
each other. Indeed, those who
sow the seed of murder and
pain cannot reap joy and love.”
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Ethics – Albert Einstein
“Nothing will benefit human
health or increase chances for
survival of life on Earth as
much as the evolution to a
vegetarian diet.”
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Ethics – Leonardo da Vinci
“Truly man is the king of beasts,
for his brutality exceeds them.
We live by the death of others.
We are burial places. The time
will come when we will look
upon the murder of animals as
we now look on the murdering
of humans.”
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Ethics – Alice Walker
 Alice Walker – writer
“The animals of the world
exist for their own reasons.
They were not made for
humans any more than black
people were made for whites,
or women created for men.”
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Ethics – George Bernard Shaw
 writer, Living Graves
“We are the living graves of
murdered beasts, slaughtered
to satisfy our appetites. How
can we hope in this world to
attain the peace we say we are
so anxious to have?.”
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EarthSave International
John Robbins wrote DNA (1987), Nobel Nomination
75,000 letters – Founded EarthSave in 1988
Today: 40 Chapters throughout the world
EarthSave Inland Empire
Founded in 1996: Sharron Cordaro & Billie Schwarz
 Monthly Potluck/Presentations
 Outreaches
 Special Presentations
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Why Join EarthSave
Connect & Gain support
Send a Powerful message that you
Do not need animal products!
Are a True World HERO!
Reducing suffering & pollution!
Helping all to live healthier, happier lives!
Reducing world hunger!
Helping save Rain Forests!
Reducing water & land use for food!
Spreading EarthSave’s message!
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Why Join EarthSave - 2
ESI Quarterly
Monthly chapter newsletter
Reduced admission fee
10% discount on purchases
10% - 20% Health Partners discount
Vet, Chiropractic, Cosmetics, Masseuse,
Hydrocolonic, Organic Salad Greens,
Reiki, Hypnotherapy, Sharron’s CD
Free copy of “The Food Revolution”
(with each membership or renewal)
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EarthSave Membership
Year’s membership
$20 – Student or Beyond 55
$35 – Individual
$50 – Family
$100 – Patron
$500 – Sustainer
$1,000 – Lifetime
Free copy of “The Food Revolution”
 New / renew mbrshp. of $20 or more.
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Final Thought
John Robbins, p-282 of his fantastic new book,
“The Food Revolution,”
“What is at stake today is enormous; it is
the destiny of life on Earth. At such a
time, walking a path of honoring
ourselves and the living planet, is our
responsibility as citizens of the planet,
but it is something more, as well.”
“It is also a joy, and a privilege.”
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Open Discussion
Vegetarian & Vegan Diet
Animal Rights
Mad Cow Disease in Humans
Food Borne Diseases from eating animals
Joining EarthSave
Etc., etc., etc.
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Check Out
Free Diet & Animal Rights Literature
Merchandise For Sale
Books
Bumper stickers
Diet for a New America – book & video
The Food Revolution – ea. new or renewal
Join EarthSave
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The End
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The End
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What Else Can We Do?
Use full spectrum fluorescents
Drive Cleaner
Electric
Conversions
• Ca. Electric Automotive Co.
(Temecula)
Hybrid (over 1,000 - UCS)
Honda Insight
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Toyota Prius
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Mad Cow Disease?
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy
 Transmitted by taking in prions from animals
(especially from brain, spinal cord and blood)
 TSE - sheep, cows, mink, deer, cats & humans
 Symptoms
Long incubation period before symptoms – years or decades
Attacks central nervous system (Lose control of faculties)
Brain Disintegration (little holes - Swiss cheese)
Dementia and early death!
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
 Feeding cows & other animals to cows
 Dementia & Death!
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CJD Symptoms
From eating animal parts, blood donations, soaps,
sweets, sporting goods, sperm, supplements,
vaccines, mother to fetus and human breast milk!
 Memory loss
 Difficulty in walking
 Visual disturbances
 Tremors
 Symptoms similar to altzheimer’s disease
 Destroys human brain cells
 Dementia & Death!
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Feed Cows to Cows?
Dead Cow Options
 $100: Pay Ca. State Diagnostic Lab – Hauled
away,
checked for disease and destroyed
 Renderer – Free: Cows eat ground up animals,
including cow parts and blood
Turns grass eater into:
Animal eater
Cows eating cow parts are cannibals!
BSE – TSE symptoms
Dementia & Early Death!
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Where is Mad Cow?
Governments say BSE is there (ES, winter 2001)
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Azores, Czechoslovakia (?)
Belgium (23) (Nat’l. Rendering Assoc. website [NRA])
Canada (1)
Denmark (3) (NRA)
France (249) (NRA)
Germany (50) (NRA)
Ireland (587) (NRA)
Italy (2) (NRA)
Japan (BMJ.com website)
Luxembourg (1) (NRA)
Netherlands (9) (NRA)
Portugal (587) (NRA)
Scotland [“Mad Cow Disease” (website)]
Spain (32) (NRA)
Switzerland (367) (NRA)
United Kingdom (180,501) (NRA)
USA (formerly of USDA, Dr. Robinson (1/27,500 cows, 39/yr.)
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Mad Cow in the USA?
US Government says, “NO”.
Yale University study concluded in 2000 (FR, P-150)
 13% Alzheimer autopsies was CJD
 4,000,000 alzheimer cases in USA
 13% is 520,000 with CJD
Harvard study – 5% or 200,000 CJD
Germany found Mad Cow only after prion testing.
Testing frequency
 Most other countries – 1 of 60 cows (died or
slaughtered)
 USA – 1 out of 18,000 cows (slaughtered for human
food)
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BSE Testing Methods
Mad Cow testing in other countries
Prionics of Switzerland (sells testing eq.)
 $16 - Rapid response prion detecting tests
 Two Types
Check WESTERN
1 person
100 tests per day
LIA – partially automated
1 person
200 tests in 2.5 hours
 Detect prions even before symptoms arise
 Testing frequency – 1 in every 60 (died or
slaughtered)
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BSE Testing Methods - 2
Mad Cow testing in USA
 Long, expensive and tedious Western Blot analyses
 Remove portion of dead cow’s brain
 Section & dye stain portion removed
 Examine how dye has interacted with brain tissue
 Does not detect prions (believed to cause BSE)
 Testing frequency – 1 of every 18,000 cows
(slaughtered for human food)
 Very fast food production lines
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CJD Deaths
Governments acknowledging CJD deaths
 Since 1995 – United Kingdom: 100 (CNN, 5/21/01)
 France (Time, 2001)
 Hungary (maybe 1)
 Ireland (Time, 2001)
 Scotland
Warning Alarms!!!
 FDA reports cow in feed violations! (Jan. 2001)
 Meat paste: hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza toppings,
and taco filling (CSPI, August 10, 2001)
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Vegetarian Ethical Reasons
A Cow’s Life
Iowa Hunting
A Higher Taste
India
Babe
Quotes from Famous Thinkers
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Ethics – Leonardo da Vinci
“Truly man is the king of beasts,
for his brutality exceeds them.
We live by the death of others.
We are burial places. The time
will come when we will look
upon the murder of animals as
we now look on the murdering
of humans.”
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Ethics – Albert Einstein
“It is my view that the
vegetarian manner of
living, by its purely physical
effect on the human
temperament, would most
beneficially influence the
lot of mankind.”
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Ethics – Mahatma Gandhi
 “I do feel that spiritual progress does demand
that we should cease to kill our fellow
creatures for he satisfaction of bodily wants. It
ill becomes us to invoke the blessings of God,
the Compassionate, if we in turn do not practice
elementary compassion towards our fellow
creatures.”
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Ethics – Mahatma Gandhi
“The greatness of a nation
and its moral progress can
be judged by the way its
animals are treated.”
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Ethics – Abraham Lincoln
“I am in favor of animal
rights as well as human
rights. That is the way of a
whole human being.”
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Ethics – Plutarch
“Does it not shame you to mingle
murder and blood with the earth’s
beneficent fruits? Other
carnivores you call savage and
ferocious…yet for them, murder is
the only means of sustenance!
Whereas to you it is a superfluous
luxury and crime.”
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Ethics – Pythagorus
As long as man continues to be a
ruthless destroyer of lower living
beings, he will never know health
or peace. For as long as men
massacre animals, they will kill
each other. Indeed, he who
sows the seed of murder and
pain cannot reap joy and love.
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Ethics – Rousseau
“Meat eating animals are
generally more cruel and
violent then herbivores,
therefore a vegetarian diet
would produce a more
compassionate person.”
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Ethics – Carl Sagan
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“If chimpanzees have
consciousness, if they are
capable of abstractions, do they
not have what until now has
been described as ‘human
rights’? How smart does a
chimp have to be before
killing him constitutes
murder?”
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Ethics – Dr. Albert Schweitzer
Nobel Peace Prize - Acceptance Speech
“The human spirit is not dead....It
has come to believe that
compassion, in which all ethics
must take root, can only attain its
full breadth and depth if it
embraces all living creatures
and does not limit itself to
mankind.”
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Ethics – Leo Tolstoy
“The First Step”
“If (we aspire)…toward a
righteous life,…(we should
not injure)… animals.”
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Ethics – Henry Thoreau
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“I have no doubt that it is a
part of the destiny of the
human race, in its gradual
improvement, to leave off
eating animals, as surely as
the savage tribes have left
“off eating each other when
they came in contact with the
more civilized.”
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Ethics – Alice Walker
“The animals of the world
exist for their own reasons.
They were not made for
humans any more than black
people were made for whites,
or women created for men.”
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Reduce Water Need
Massive Ogallala aquifer
 1/3 of US irrigation ground water
 1950 – No drain on aquifer
 2001 - Level dropping
1990’s - ¼ of Texas share gone
1/3 of 1970’s irrigated land: today parched – no food
grows!
S - irrigantion circles
World aquifers getting low
(Time, 1999)
 Millions of wells going dry in
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China
India
North Africa
USA
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Reduce Water Need - 2
Save water [Soil & Water specialists, UCAg. Ext. (1978)]
 Animal meats
# of beef: 5,214 gals. of water
# of pork: 1,630 gals. of water
 Vegan foods
# of apples: 49 gals. (most water needed vegan food)
# of lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes: 23 gals. of water
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Livestock Lives
Cows or “Hooved Locust”
 Grazing 1,000# animals
Almost free on public land
Trample & destroy plants
Crush soil – heavily compacted
Very hard for plants to re-grow
 Factory Farm: urine, feces, nitrates, stench
 Pollute rivers & oceans – 7,000 sq. mi. Dead Zone
Pigs
 Small, stacked cages
 Nursing – Small, metal, cement floor crates
 Factory Farm: urine, feces, nitrates, stench
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Livestock Lives - 2
Chickens
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Crammed together in cages
Cannot raise a wing
Feet deformed around cage floor mesh
Stress - Pecking to death!
Debeaked
Old Layers sucked into vacuum
Rendered
Fed back to other livestock, including chickens
 Baby Chicks & Free Range
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Biotech Food Promises
Atomic Energy:
“Electricity Too Cheap to Meter”
Biotech Promises U.S. Public Believes
 Healthier foods
 Increased yields
 Better tasting foods
 Reduce pesticide use
 Help the environment
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Biotech Food Results
 Less Nutritious - More Pesticides
 Lower Yields
 Poison Free Organic Foods taste better
 More Chemical Fertilizer
 More Pesticides & Herbicides (Poisons)
 Chemicalized, Sterile Soil
 No decaying plant matter
 No worms to make healthy soil
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Breakdown leaves, grass, etc. into plant food
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Provide channels to increase air & water flow in soil
Worm castings – organic fertilizer
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 No bacteria converting decaying plants into plant food
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Biotech Food Statistics
 1999 – (World Watch Institute)
 80%: soy, cotton & canola
 Genetically Altered to withstand more Roundup (weed killer)
 20%: Genetically Altered to have pesticide in each
cell
Acreage (World Watch Institute)
 1995: Negligible acreage
 1996: 4 million acres
 1997: 27 million acres
 1998: 69 million acres
 1999: 99 million acres
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ES & Baskin-Robbins
John Robbins
 Heir to ice cream fortune
 Sickly as a child
Irv Robbins, father
 High blood pressure
 Serious diabetes
Burt Baskin, uncle
 Weighed 220
 Died at 53 of first heart attack
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Conserving Resources
British group Vegfam
10-acre farm can support
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60 people growing soybeans
24 people growing wheat
10 people growing corn
2 people producing cattle
Add FATMAN/STARVING KID GRAPHIC
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John Robbins’ Health
John observed while in his teens
 Father: diabetic, high blood pressure
 Uncle Burt: Dead at 53
 Himself: Sick a lot
Pondered and researched
 Was eating a lot of ice cream a health risk?
 How does what we eat affect
Our health? (Heart Disease, Cancer, etc.)
The other animals?
World resources?
Air, Water and Soil Pollution?
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Heart Attack & Stroke
Clogged blood vessels
 Millions of autopsies
 Looks like rubber cement
 Saturated fat & cholesterol
 Vegan foods remove arterial plaque
Sidney Silverson - testimony
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John & EarthSave
Decided: no Baskin-Robbins money
Wrote Diet for a New America
 Nobel Prize nomination
 75,000 letters – read or heard
We need an organization to promote ahimsa
 1988 – founded EarthSave
 Today
Chapters in many states & several countries
Total of 40 Chapters – 5,000 members
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John & EarthSave - 2
John’s other publications
 Videos
Diet for a New America – PBS (1991)
Take A Stand – P / V Chapter (April 2001)
 Books
Diet for a New America
May All Be Fed
Reclaiming Our Health
The Food Revolution (2001 – 3 best seller lists)
(Read: P-136)
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Vegan Conferences
AR2001 – by FARM
North American Vegan Society
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“I’m a Vegetarian”
CHORUS: I’m a vegetarian. My life, the killing transcends.
The animals are my friends, and I don’t eat my friends.
VERSES:
1. Long ago when my daddy was young, he’d hunt and fish with his brothers.
They brought home food for the family, and often shared it with others.
2. When Daddy brought home the bodies of all those creatures who used to
run, swim or fly,
Cut out their guts and fried ‘em in a skillet, I just wanted to cry. That’s
why….CHORUS
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“I’m a Vegetarian” - 2
3. Now I’ve learned many other reasons why I should not eat my animal friends.
It harms my body and it hurts Mother Earth, and on her all life depends.
4. For every sixteen pounds of grain you feed a cow, one pound of beef is all
you take away.
It’s inefficient, and it’s inhumane, when 40,000 starve to death each day.
That’s why…CHORUS
5. Salmonella and e coli, the animals contaminate. They say we must irradiate.
Mountains of manure pollute the water and the land. The solution is on my
plate.
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“I’m a Vegetarian” - 3
6. Diabetes and osteoporosis, heart disease and cancer –
You can get them all from eating animals. A plant-based diet is the answer.
That’s why…CHORUS
7. Most of the corn and soy that’s grown is used to feed the animals humans
eat.
Pesticided land could be returned to native forest if people would stop eating
meat.
8. Factory farming features crowding and cruelty, sickness, filth and misery.
I cannot be a part of all that suffering. They are sentient beings just like you
and me.
That’s why..CHORUS
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“I’m a Vegetarian” - 4
9. What if aliens came from space and regarded humans as inferior?
Would you like it if they farmed us for food because they thought they were
superior?
10. And did you ever have a special pet? Don’t you think every animal wants to
live
A life of freedom and choice, and to them, that is the gift I can give, because
…CHORUS
11. You know the power of one committed person. You know the reasons for a
veggie diet.
Have the courage to make the change. Follow your heart and really try it.
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“I’m a Vegetarian” - 5
Let’s sing together:
CHORUS: We are vegetarians. Our lives, the killing transcends.
The animals are our friends, and we don’t eat our friends.
Yes, the animals are our friends, and we don’t eat our friends.
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