OUR IMPACT ON NON-HUMAN ANIMALS
WHY VEGAN?
Animal agriculture kills around 78.000.000.000 land animals and 2.700.000.000.000 aquatic animals every single year.
Farm animals live in the worst imaginable conditions possible: secluded in reduced spaces, crammed with thousands of others in farms, mutilated to prevent them from hurting eachother in those unnatural places and we stuff them ith antibiotics to prevent horrible diseases that we cause ourselves by forcing them in these situations.
Finally, even the ones in the best conditions get killed at a fraction of their natural lifespan in slaughterhouses most people wouldn’t even dare to look at.
Main resources
Below you’ll find resources we’ve selected personally for each one of the categories.
Vegan cheat sheet
If you want even more resources, click the image to visit this amazing website by the Vegan Hacktivists.
VIDEOS
Every Argument Against Veganism
Can you keep eating meat after hearing this? Earthling Ed, a vegan educator, debunks every argument against veganism.
The Most Important Speech You Will Ever Hear
An inspirational life-changing speech by Gary Yourofsky, an animal liberation activist, national lecturer on animal rights.
Dairy is scary
We can drink milk because cows do not suffer, right? Discover everything the dairy industry is hiding from you.
DOCUMENTARIES
Dominion
Dominion uses drones, hidden and handheld cameras to expose the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture.
The "Uncovered" series
This series of short videos will show you everything they don’t want you to see. Take a peek and decide by yourself.
Land of Hope and Glory
The hidden truth behind UK animal farming – featuring around 100 facilities across the UK and never before seen footage.
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES
Disclaimer: there is little scientific debate on the fact that animals have a central nervous system that makes them capable of experiencing emotions and pain. Even so, I’ll leave some scientific articles analyzing the morality of treating animals as objects (and ignoring their capacity to suffer) for various purposes.
Fischer, M (2014)
Is There a Need for a More Expansive Use of Ethics and Values in Reflecting on the Use of Animals in Scientific Research?
National Research Council (2009)
Recognition and Alleviation of Pain in Laboratory Animals.
Levy, N (2014)
The use of animal as models: ethical considerations.
BOOKS
Eating Animals
Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to explore the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions involved with creating them.
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism
An absorbing look at what social psychologist Melanie Joy calls carnism, the belief system that conditions us to eat certain animals when we would never dream of eating others.
OTHER RESOURCES
Carnism debunked
Plants feel pain, animals eat other animals and I need protein to survive. Find the answer to all your questions here.
Animal sanctuaries worldwide
Vegan.com offers many different resources, but this time we share with you their amazing sanctuary list.
Happy Cow
A website to find vegan businesses around you. Like a vegan Google Maps. They also have an app (Android + iOS).