WARN Educational Presentation On
Vegetarianism/Veganism.
- Do you care about your
health?
i. There is as much calcium
in 4 ounces of firm tofu or 3/4 cups of collard greens as there is
in one cup of cow's milk
ii. More than 100,000 Americans sickened by contaminated seafood
each year.
iii. You would have to eat 340 calories of sirloin steak to get
the same amount of iron as found in 100 calories of
spinach.
- Do you care about the
environment?
i. The raising of livestock is linked to polluted
drinking water and soil, acid rain, dying forests, and the over
fertilization of soil.
ii. The U.S. livestock population consumes enough
grain and soybeans to feed more than five times the entire U.S.
population. One acre of pasture produces an average of 165
pounds of beef; the same acre can produce 20,000 pounds of
potatoes.
- Do you care about other
people?
i. If Americans reduced their meat consumption by
only 10%, it would free 12 million tons of grain annually for
human consumption. That alone would be enough to adequately feed
each of the 60 million people who starve to death each
year.
- Do you care about animals?
i. Over 123,000 cattle are slaughtered every day
for food.
ii. Approximately 300 million egg laying hens in
the U.S. are confined in battery cages --small wire cages stacked
in tiers and lined up in rows in huge warehouses, and for every
egg laying hen confined in a battery cage, there is a male chick
who was killed at the hatchery.
The Internet is a good resource for information
and recipes.
www.PETA.org People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals
www.vrg.org Vegetarian Resource
Group
www.veganoutreach.org Home of "Why
Vegan"
www.pangeaveg.com Online
Vegan Store
www.pcrm.com Physicians
Committee for Responsible Medicine
WARN ( Wesleyan Animal Rights Network) meets at
[ ] p.m. on [ ] nights in
Meeting Room 1 on the 3rd floor of the campus center. If you
have any questions come and ask us there, new members are always
welcome.
Feel free to contact us personally. We are
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Look for signs advertising WARN's Annual
Thanksgiving Dinner, which is a special VegOut that united WARN with
[Earth House, Well-Being House, and Art House], before
Thanksgiving break.