By PrkStRangr@aol.com
March 20th, next Saturday, is the date of the 15th
annual Great American
Meatout. This is one of the few times during the year that vegetarians
can get
away with a little more intrusion into the lives of their friends. It is
to be
expected that vegetarians will ask people to give up meat for a day to
celebrate
this event. So go ahead, be a little bit of an activist. Tell your
friends that if
everyone in our country gave up meat for just one day it would save the
lives of
two million animals. That's how many are slaughtered each day for food.
This week in preparation for the Meatout, you might like
to print out a few fact
sheets to pass out from information available on the web... (for
example...
How To Win An Argument With a Meat-Eater
http://www.veg.org/veg/FAQ/extinction.html )
or make a poster to hang (with permission) at school,
your office or at your
grocery or health food store. Dash off a quick letter to your local
newspaper
tomorrow to let people in your city know that a vegetarian diet is the
best way to
promote personal health, lessen animal suffering and conserve our
planet's
natural resources. Buy a book for a non-vegetarian friend; I suggest
John
Robbin's "Diet for a New America", Howard Lyman's "Mad Cowboy" or Eric
Marcus' "Vegan; the New Ethics of Eating."
If you can persuade someone to give up meat for a day,
it is possible you
can get them to consider going all the way. Going vegan is the most
important
step any individual can take to help all animals. Nine billion animals
suffer and
are slaughtered each year to provide the meat based diet in our country.
Millions of other animals and wildlife are killed because they are
competitors or
pests to the meat industry.
All the animals experimented on, all the animals used to
test household
chemicals and cosmetics, all the animals raised for fur, all the animals
who
suffer in rodeos and circuses are a drop in the bucket compared to the
nine
billion who become food. If you are already a vegan, the next important
thing
you can do is discover how to best spread this message to your friends
and
gently and non-confrontationally convert them.
For more information on the Great American Meatout
visit:
FARM - Farm Animal Reform Movement
http://www.farmusa.org/index.html
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