I believe if the viewing of slaughter was required to eat meat, most folks would become vegetarians.

Family farmers are victims of public policy that gives preference to feeding animals over feeding people. This has encouraged the cheap grain policy of this nation and has made the beef cartel the biggest hog at the trough.

1,000 cows in the U.S. are alive at night and dead in the morning. These cows on the ground are ground into feed, making their fellows not only carnivores but cannibals. Europe after Mad Cows' Disease has banned this practice. The U.S has not yet.

You, (my meat-eating friends), put your health at risk – that’s your business. But animal-based diets put the land, the water, the air, a society’s collective health, and even our collective pharmaceutical resources at risk. That’s my business. That’s everyone’s business.

To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity.

For those who are still merely vegetarian and not yet vegan, I ask, what in heaven's name are you waiting for?

No animal needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.