indycar01's Blog

I went and looked and this is a site against the use of animals in medical testing. Now you use that to belittle a lot of great and helpful groups. Why would you do that? At this time of the year a lot of groups like the Goodfellows, and Toy's for Tot's need our help to make the kids lives a little better and putting out something like this might distract form the good that is accomplished.

untreated sewage from factory farms-more than 40 tons a second-seeps into our groundwater, contaminates rivers and streams, and fouls our air. a single pig farm in utah produces more waste than all of los angeles.

meat production uses more fresh water than any other industry. one pound of meat takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce, one pound of wheat needs only 25 gallons.

to make room to raise more animals, 125,000 square miles of rainforest are destroyed every year. fifty-five square feet of rainforest are burned to produce a quarter-pound of beef.

to graze cattle for cheap burgers at home, u.s. fast-food franchises have joined other corpotate giants in tearing down the rainforests - home of millions of animals, AND! the climate control center of the earth - at the rate of 6,000 acres per hour.

i care NOT much for a mans religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. abraham lincoln, custom will reconcile people to any atrocity. george bernard shaw, its become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. albert einstein

"the greatness of a nation... can be judged by the way its animals are treated." gandhi