As vegan food sales soar, the meat industry pushes back!
Corporate leaders, clearly feeling threatened, are pressuring lawmakers to enforce laws against vegan activism.
Within the united states, many states have passed 'ag-gag' bills. This is a law which makes it illegal to take a picture of a suffering pig in a factory farm. Why? Because it is bad for profits!
This is happening in Australia as well, the new bio-security bill, rightly named the Australian 'ag-gag' gives the power to law enforcement officials, giving them the power to prosecute a whistle-blower revealing corporate sanctioned animal rights abuse.
This is just one of the many tactics employed by the meat & diary industry to keep you unhealthy and keep their payrolls rising. We will discuss some other tactics shortly.
The Marketing
Beef. It’s What’s for Dinner.
Pork. The Other White Meat.
Milk. It Does a Body Good.
Ads like these imprint themselves into our subconscious and become part of our belief system. What is for dinner? Without you knowing why, it is beef.
And your income tax is used to pay for this marketing, named checkoffs.
These checkoff programs provide funding of over $557 million each year for animal food producers to promote their goods.
The Heath Risks
Americans eat more meat per person than any other people, they are paying for it in doctor bills! With 200 pounds of meat per person every year, clinical studies show that large consumption of meat and diary products can cause cancer, diabetes, heart diesease, and other dangerous ailments.
Americans also have twice the obesity rate, twice the diabetes rate and almost three times the cancer rate of the average person on Earth. Meat is not the only factor, but it's a big one.
The Inhumane Treatment
Industry laws passed during the last 30 years have made it legal to maime, mutilate, torture, wound and kill an animal, as long as its "following generally accepted agricultural practices".
Farmed animals have almost not protection from inhumane treatment.
The below video is VERY GRAPHIC and shows an example of a factory farm in work, mistreating chickens, please do not watch if you are faint of heart, as this video is very tragic.
Where's The Protein?
We live in a society which has been mislead to think that meat and diary are the only source of protein. without a copious amount of animal protein, it will not be possible to be healthy. This message is everywhere. protein, protein, protein, the more the better.
This animal protein push is not only based on a lie, it is killing the consumers. Convincing us to eat factory farmed, hormone and pesticide ridden meat that is high in saturated fat. A large contributing factor to the epidemic of heart disease.
The essential amino acids in protein are not only in animals, they are originally created by the plants that the animals have eaten. It may be possible to cut out the middle man and receive more protein by directly eating the plants!
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The healthy plant-based sources of protein are black, kidney, pinto, and other beans, almonds, lentils, hemp seeds, spirulina, and quinoa. Even eating less-concentrated sources of protein like potatoes, sweet potatoes, and bananas will get you exactly where you need to be.
What Can We Do?
It is obvious we have been lied to! As a consumer, you can directly effect these evil industries by buying less of their products or even going on a completely plant based diet. This is what they fear the most! I myself have taken some steps in this direction but I find it difficult to give up something which I grew up consuming and believing to be humane.
I hope this article has taught you something you may have not known about the meat and diary industry.
I'll join you shortly in the comments!
Chron cares about animal rights!