Veganism: Saving the Earth, one mouthful at a time
Animal Rights Poetry By Heidi Stephenson From All-Creatures.org
Poems of compassion dedicated to the non-human animals who share this planet
with us and the people who fight for them.
Veganism: Saving the Earth, one mouthful at a time
By Heidi Stephenson
“Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my
friends.” - George Bernard Shaw
“The time will come when men will upon the murder
of animals,
as they now look upon the murder of men.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
“I have given you every plant yielding seed…and
every tree with seed in its fruit…
You shall have them for food.”
(Genesis 1:29)
- Veganism reduces food-related greenhouse gases by up to 73 per cent
per person.
- Animal ‘agriculture’ is the biggest driver of deforestation,
desertification, wildlife loss, air pollution and water use.
- A third of Earth’s cereal crop is fed to enslaved, fellow beings, so
that some weaned humans can eat flesh, the egg sacks of bird embryos and
the breast milk of babies.
- Because of overfishing more than half of Earth’s marine species now
face extinction.
- 700 million humans go hungry each year. Eating crops would feed
another 4 billion.
- A third of all food is thrown away.
- We have been complicit in mass murder… and off-the-scale animal
suffering.
- Eating animal ‘products’ is linked to many health problems, from
diabetes to cancer.
- It is in our power to change all this.
Facts taken from
VIVA! PLANET and
VIVA! HEALTH
In the urgent cause of putting the “kind” back into “humankind,” please see
also: VIVA! ANIMALS
©Heidi Stephenson, October 2021
Image from
Pixabay
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