Easy alternatives

People are mostly off put by going vegetarian by the thoughts that it will be hard and you wont be able to eat anything. WRONG! You can eat anything, but meat. I can eat breads, pastas, vegetables, fruits, starches, junk food, almost anything! My favorite is veggie tacos which is literally just ground up tofu that is in a taco shell. It tastes almost the exact same (and better in my opinion) Instead of normal cheeseburgers you can eat veggie burgers! You cant tell the difference. You dont have to sacrifice the things you love to help animals. You can eat what you want and still be unsupportive of the cruelty that goes on in these dirty facilities.

veggie pizza

These are the tofu crumbles i had mentioned above. 

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Animal Shelters

Each year 6-8 million dogs and cats are put into shelters for multiple reasons. They could be homeless, sick or just plain lost. These dogs are put into cages and given a temporary home until they can find a home. With the amount of dogs being bred and lost or homeless the shelters just cant keep up anymore. To have room for newer animals the Shelters have started to put dogs to sleep to leave room for the more "adoptable" ones. This is a process called to Euthanize. This is why it is extremely important to buy from shelters and not breeders. You are ultimately saving lives and giving a dog a second chance. 

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Technology Saving Animals

With all the prior blogs i have done, you have found out so much about how animals feel real emotions just like humans do. They are able to mourn and, be extremely happy as well as extremely sad. From my own experience going to the Omaha zoo I learned some interesting things myself about how animals behave. When i went to the Omaha zoo i was so eager to try and find the elephants. To my disappointment there were no elephants. I was sad until I read a sign that said that one of the elephants, named Shenga, had moved to the Cleveland Zoo after the death of her mate Maliaka. Shenga went into a deep depression so the Omaha Zoo made a very hard decision to send Shenga to the Cleveland Zoo to be among the other two elephants they have there. Much like elephants, Pandas are also very sensitive animals. A panda named Silja was one of the animals saved by the horrible earthquake in Wenchuan, China. She was sent to the Yunnan Wild Animal Park and quickly grew very bored. The experts working with her noticed her starting to get depressed so they bought her a plasma screen tv and played played pictures of pandas to make her feel less lonely. 

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This is what youre putting inside your body!

Not only does it kill animals in the process, but eating some meats can cause colon cancer. A study once had 478,000 men who were cancer free eat a lot of red meat. After their diet there was a 28% increasing developing colon cancer. These studies are shocking yet most people think red meat is just safe. Its not and that's the harsh truth. Red meat is a lot harder to digest as well and is just not a good choice when compared to healthier alternative options. 

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Chicken Food Industries

As i said in my first blog post so many chickens are killed each day. They are thrown around, suffocated and injured. Workers are completely inhumane about the way they handle the animals. They're sorted through and thrown onto a conveyor belt without the people even thinking about the well-being of the chickens. Chickens that are defective and "useless"  because of not being able to reproduce are thrown into a grinder to be grinded up and thrown away. So males, If you were a baby chick in an egg industry you would be grinded up alive just because you're a male and females who are fine get their beaks cut off with a laser.

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Animal testing

Testing animals has become something that has become very common in the beauty industry and for medical purposes. Apparently burning a rabbits face off is less important than finding your perfect shade of foundation. Its such an ignorant selfish situation. Just because animals cant express their feelings verbally people suddenly think its okay to take advantage of animals. Believe it or not, but animals actually DO have feelings and they CAN feel pain just like we can. Being a mammal myself i feel it is my responsibility to speak for those who cannot. You can help too by boycotting brands that test their products on animals. Im almost positive that you will find an even better vegan facial cleanser. Animal testing must end.

Here is a video of just some of the things that happen to animals in a testing facility

animal testing video

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Entertainment purposes

Animals all over the world are being used in circuses, races and rides. I remember as a kid thinking the circus was so amazing. I never knew that you could get animals to do such amazing things. Growing up I have realized how wrong the entertainment industry actually is and to get animals to do such tricks it requires a lot of beating and binding animals to intimidate them into doing what the trainer wants them to do. Elephants in the circus are beaten by bull hooks they are sharp curved poles that are stuck into the skin to harm the elephant if it does not do what is expected. They are bound at the ankles with chains when they are very little to get them to be submissive and calm.

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Id rather go naked than wear fur

Instead of going into extreme detail of how fur coats are made i am going to go into extreme detail AND tell you about a controversial campaign to try and stop it! This is the "id rather go naked than wear fur campaign" I absolutely love this campaign because it grabs the attention of the public in a way that is shocking yet shows you what you're actually wearing

First let me explain.

You're walking in the mall and you see something silky catch your eye. Its a beautiful expensive fur coat. Wow what a beautiful freaking product. WRONG its dead bear skin. That stupid cliche coat is torture. A bear cub was torn away from its mother, beaten against the ground and kicked until death then it is hung upside down and skinned alive just to make your "luxurious" fur coat

Here is a video of how it all happens. (very graphic)

Chinese fur factory video
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Why you so obsessed with me?

People always ask me why i'm so in love with elephants and will defend them until i die. Here is why Elephants are worth fighting for.They are the largest mammal alive and extremely endangered, but what makes them extremely special is their ability to feel emotions. Much like humans elephants experience grieving, extreme happiness, love and sadness. They get very emotionally attached to their loved ones and will mourn over their dead carcasses for months. The birth of a baby elephant is one of the most happy occasions much like the joy humans have when holding their babies for the first time (I can imagine their excitement because they hold their 200 pound baby in them for 22 months until birth!

Behold! Le elephant fetus.

The bond between a mom and baby elephant is such a strong connection that it cant help, but to make you overwhelmingly happy.

This bond seems unbreakable and so genuine, but there's one thing that can rip apart this bond like no other: Poachers that lust for ivory. Over 25,000 elephants are killed each year for their tusks. The average elephant tusk is worth anywhere from $500-$5000 and a life of an elephant. Poachers don't even think about how they're taking away a mother from its baby, but yet the young elephant is still pulled away from its mom and loses one of its biggest supporters and nurturers. 

Here's a picture of a baby elephant grieving over its dead mother killed by poachers. The elephant will go into a deep depression and will not leave his mothers side for months, crying over her body.

mourning video

Here is quite a long video, but worth it of how elephants mourn and grieve over their loved ones

On a more positive note here is an elephant painting a picture of an elephant 

painting video

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Reliance On Animals Summed Up in One Day.

•  200,000 chicks are rendered worthless and suffocated or thrown into a grinder completely aware of the pain they are facing.

• 100,000 cows are hung upside down and shot in the head, some still conscious get their limbs torn apart and cut off forcing them to suffer through it and die a very slow death

• over 300,000 pigs are torn from their mothers. Their tails get cut off and their teeth get pulled out and they are unwillingly transported to slaughterhouses in horrible conditions causing majority of them to die from the heat or starvation. The survivors are treated the same as the dead and thrown into scalding water to remove their skin. 

• 100 Elephants are poached each day for their tusks. This number is so dangerous considering there are under 400,000 elephants living today and they are extremely endangered at the rate poachers are killing. They are also beaten for training for entertainment purposes 

• 9,000 dogs and cats are killed each day due to overpopulation in shelters. 

I know a lot of your reactions to this might be who cares....wait....DOGS AND CATS?!?!?! yes. dogs and cats are killed all the time, but that's not the point. All of these unique, sensitive animals all have different characteristics and have so much to offer. Growing up in the country I've gotten so attached to so many animals. Pigs, horses, cows, and chickens and it absolutely disgusts me to know that some of the most enlightening beings are being killed every second for our own selfish needs. Its horrible!! 

If  this didn't convince you enough here are some images of the animals mentioned above 

I understand this is extremely graphic, but this is the sad truth you've been hidden from. This is the Hyline Hatchery in Iowa. This happens each day. This isnt some sick horror movie. It has become a normal part of society. The way chicks are handled is appalling. The workers are rude and harsh and don't seem to understand that each little chick is a LIVING, BREATHING soul that is brutally murdered and robbed of a precious life.

Cow after being murdered

hows that bacon looking now?

an elephant after being killed and having its tusks ripped out
This is NOT okay

here is a baby elephant in training being bound and beaten with a bullhook

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