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I don’t know diet is… so let’s set the record straight: A vegetarian
simply doesn’t eat any dead animals or bits taken

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Well done! You’re already thinking along the right lines! But
we bet you didn’t know that chickens are the most abused
will think dozen reasons to think you’re
weird if they want to. Being
on live animal transportation
which made me have the idea
farmed animals? Kept in gross conditions, 850 million of them are
killed every year in the UK. And fish have feelings too! It’s not even open I’m weird… veggie is something to be
proud of – you don’t need
initially. Me and my mum
started the same day and it's
to argument that they suffer terribly when they’re caught. And healthy? Only if you think that to apologise. Cutting just so easy - Mum cooks
deadly poisons such as PCBs, dioxin and mercury are healthy because most fish now contain low suffering out of your life shows you can think for yourself amazing veggie food and you
levels of them from pollution. Overfishing is hoovering the oceans empty and wiping out the – and there’s nothing weird about that. That’s strong. wouldn't know the difference
animals that depend on fish. Most people who take the mickey out of being between veggie food or meat, my
We have animal vegetarian know nothing about it. Go on, tell ‘em – talk dad hasn't got a clue what he's
Oh yes it can – and is! Most animals raised for to them. And if you need any help answering the eating and is practically an
welfare laws so meat are kept in disgusting conditions questions they’re bound to throw at you, check out the involuntary veggie!”
it can’t be cruel. inside factory farms, never seeing Viva! website - www.viva.org.uk - with its guide to
daylight, sun or rain. Pigs killed for
What
dealing with dimwits.
meat live only five or six months
s
but it takes a battery of drugs to keep them alive. From birth
fe re nce doe I don’t know what to eat!
until death they’re given powerful antibiotics in a desperate dif make?
attempt to control the diseases that run rife in the filth of
er so n ight
factory farms – drugs which have helped create superbugs one p feren
you m
ce than at eater, You can eat all the things you eat now – burgers, bangers,
that now threaten us all. f a dif rit me ay
More o he average B omp their w pizzas, fish fingers, chilli, nuggets, curry and so on – but
ink . T lif e, ch eep
Chicken rearing is the most intensified and automated type th t their s, 23 s
h veggie versions without a trace of a dead animal. And
th ro ughou attle, 18 pig ckens, there are thousands of new and exciting foods to discover
of animal production there is. Chicks are crammed into foul h4c 8 chi
smelling windowless sheds - often 40,000 in each. The baby throug lambs, 115 s, 1 rabbit, as well! Going veggie opens up a whole world.
and ck
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birds are bred to grow too fast and are pumped full of keys, 2 50 fish. Th
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drugs to reach slaughter size in just 41 days. When they are e and by goin No – it’s just the opposite!
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on’t you We need Eating meat helps to cause
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obese adult body. Most birds become crippled as their legs world starvation because
re there’s just not enough
cannot support their body weight. Turkeys are almost all factory
farmed - as are ducks - water birds that never get to swim or fly in
meat to feed land for all the animals. Lead singer and guitarist for US
their short, sad lives. Most of what they eat isn’t pop punk sensations Goldfinger
the world turned into meat, it’s turned “I can look at all my
No, it’s likely to improve. A diet packed with animal products is high in into poo – wasteful or what?
companion animals
If I turned cholesterol and saturated fat and can contribute to heart disease, To feed everyone on the kind of
without guilt knowing
cancer, diabetes, strokes, obesity and other diseases. Doesn’t seem meat diet we eat in the rich West, we’d need four planet
vegetarian quite so appealing now, does it? Earths! Livestock take up too much land, use too much water that my life is not
and cause the trashing of rainforests, wildlife, cause acid rain, dependant on their
wouldn’t my ANYONE can be healthy by eating a wide variety of vegetarian global warming and water pollution. So if you care about
people or the planet - go veggie!
suffering. And us veggies
health suffer? foods. Try it and you’ll notice the difference in no time!
taste better!”