After thousands of conversations about animal rights, we understood that the debate, between us and the non vegan, wasn’t equal. No matter how hard we tried and how rational and comprehensive the arguments were.
An Argument Will Always Lose Against Motivation.
Humans have a motivation to consume animal products. They don’t have arguments, because there is no argument that can justify consumption of animal products.

It cannot be that so many people are so stupid, they simply prefer not to think. Humans are careless enough that they don’t even bother thinking of less ridicules excuses to proclaim, not to mention actually thinking about the “moral dilemma”. About thinking of ways to help, we don’t even dream.

Even if the animal rights movement will give up on the vision of a non-speciesist world, give up on all the moral debate and focus on the selfish arguments that exclude the animals from the equation, even then it is still hopeless. Even when activists try to convince others to become vegan or vegetarian for their own benefit – exposing very harsh facts about the health hazards related with animal products consumption they don’t stop.

Humans are too concentrated in self indulgence that they ignore the unignorable facts.
Please read them even if some of them are familiar to you. We want you to observe the absurdity of the situation and more importantly, the absurdity in continuing with the efforts to convince humans to stop consuming animal products. They don’t stop even when it kills them and their families! Do you really believe they would stop because it kills non-human animals?

1. Consumption of animal products has been found to cause many diseases including: heart diseases, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, appendicitis, constipation, angina (pectoris), hemorrhoids, anemia, varicose veins, obesity and allergies. By contrast studies have shown that a vegan diet improves general health and greatly reduces the risk of developing these diseases. One study showed that vegetarians are likely to spend less than a quarter of the time that meat-eaters spend in hospitals.
2. Heart disease: more Americans die of stroke than any other nation.
   1 out of every 2 Americans will die from a heart disease.
   Excess saturated fat (mostly from animals) and cholesterol (completely from animals) will be the cause in almost every case of heart disease and cancer.
   
3. Meat and other animal products are the primary cause of atherosclerosis (clogged arteries to the heart or brain) in non-smokers, making animal products the main culprit in heart attacks and strokes. Vegetarian diets are associated with reduced risk for coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, colorectal cancer, lung cancer, kidney disease and obesity.
4. How frequently a heart attack kills in the U.S.- every 45 seconds.
   Average U.S. man's risk of death from a heart attack: 50%.
   Risk of an average U.S. vegetarian man: 15%.
   Risk of an average U.S. vegan man: 4%.
5. Diseases of the heart and circulatory system are responsible for more than half of all deaths in the U.K. heart attacks kill 38% of all women and 40% of all men. The more animal fat consumed, the greater the risk. In countries where the diet is largely or wholly plant-based, heart diseases are rare.
6. Diet accounts for 40% of all male cancers and 60% of all female cancers. The key dietary causes of cancer are overeating fat and meat.
7. Vegetarian women have lower blood levels of estrogen, which has been shown to protect against breast cancer.
8. Increased risk of fatal prostate cancer for men who consume meat, cheese, eggs and milk daily compared with consuming little or not at all: 3.6 times. Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat meat daily compared to less than once a week: 3.8 times.
   For women who eat eggs daily compared to once a week: 2.8 times. For women who eat butter and cheese 2-4 times a week: 3.25 times.
9. Numerous studies indicate that a high-fat diet promotes breast cancer tumors. Nations like Thailand & El Salvador with low-fat, plant-based diets have the lowest breast cancer mortality rates while “high fat” countries such as the Netherlands, the united kingdom, Canada, Switzerland and the U.S. have the highest rates. Vegetarian women have lower levels of estrogen in the blood, which has been shown to protect against breast cancer.
10. Chicken and fish are not plants, substituting them for red meat will not save you from heart diseases, strokes, diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure or osteoporosis. A 3.5 ounce serving of beef contains 85 milligrams of cholesterol. A same-size piece of white chicken meat, skinned, also has 85 milligrams of cholesterol. Equivalent servings of pork, trout or turkey can clog arteries with 90, 73, and 82 milligrams of cholesterol, respectively.
11. Vegetarians have cholesterol levels 14% lower than meat-eaters; vegans have levels 35% lower.
12. Vegan diets offer disease protection because of lower cholesterol and animal protein and higher folates, antioxidant vitamins and plant nutrients.
13. Diabetes is much less likely to be a cause of death in vegans. Vegans have lower rates of obesity, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, large bowel disorders, cancers and gallstones.
14. Diabetes is sometimes caused by, in other cases aggravated by, a meat-based diet. A study of diabetics revealed that those who consumed a high-fiber, vegetarian diet, required 73% less insulin therapy than those on animal-based diets.
15. The likelihood of a vegetarian reaching the age of 80 compared to a non-vegetarian: two times greater.
16. 70% of food poisoning is caused by meat, and an estimated 4 out of 5 chickens sold on supermarkets are infected with salmonella.
17. Animal protein makes the kidneys work harder, which can result in kidney damage - especially in diabetics.
18. Meat eaters have 2-3 times more chances to suffer from Hypertension (high blood pressure) than vegans.
19. Vegans are no more likely to suffer anemia than meat eaters.
20. Antioxidants protect against more than 60 diseases, they are found mostly in fruit and vegetables.
21. Vegans have higher intakes of folic acid than omnivores.
22. Osteoporosis: excess animal protein (high in sulphur) causes acid load in the blood. To neutralize this load, calcium is leached from the bones. In a study that compared bone loss in 1,600 women at the age of 80, vegetarian women had lost only about half as much bone mineral as meat-eaters.
23. Meat contains an estimated 14 times as many pesticide residues as plant foods. Dairy products contain more than 5 times as many.
24. The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of the twentieth century.
25. Americans spend more money on fast food - $110 billion a year - than they do on higher education. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos and recorded music – combined.
26. Through decomposing waste and flatulence, livestock are responsible for 20% of greenhouse gas emissions.
27. Asian adults consume between 300 and 400 pounds of grain a year, three-fourths or more of the diet of the average Asian is composed of grain. A middle-class American, by contrast, consumes over a ton of grain each year, 80% of it through eating cattle and other grain-fed livestock.
28. Factory farming is a waste of resources. It is estimated that it takes 2.8lbs of grain, 0.19 gallons of gasoline, and 375 gallons of water to produce one pound of chicken.
29. Other Ingredients in Animal Flesh:
    • Colon bacteria, E coli.
    • Uric acid.
    • In order to gain water weight, animals are given female hormones, before they are murdered.
    • Homocysteine which causes heart disease.
    • Cholesterol which clogs arteries causing heart attacks and strokes.
    • Tiny worms in fish, trichinella in pork.
    • Waste of other animals, called wastelage is mixed in animal food.
    • Adrenalin hormone secreted in massive amounts by animals in transit and in slaughterhouses is a long protein enzyme which not all of it is destroyed by cooking
    • Other chemicals in the environment concentrate at the top of the food chain such as mercury, chromium, polychlorinated biphenols.
    • Insecticides in higher concentration than any other food.
    • antibiotics in such concentrations that animals build resistance to them.
    • Disease organisms like salmonella, listeria, toxoplasmosis, brucellosis, ptomaine.
    • Preservatives and food coloring agents.
    • Biochemicals such as methylcholanthrene and malanaldehyde created when meat is heated at high temperatures.
    • Excess protein causing kidney damage. Carnivores have kidneys five times larger than those of frugivorous humans.
30. The human race is failing in a very simple task, feeding it self.
    It takes 1.4 acres to feed one person on a typical western meat-based diet: by contrast it takes only 0.2 acres to feed someone on a vegan diet.
31. A 10-acre farm can support 60 people growing soybeans, 24 people growing wheat, 10 people growing corn and only two producing cattle.
32. The number of people who could be adequately fed, using land freed if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10%: 100 million
33. Raising animals for food is much less efficient than growing vegetables, grain, or beans. For example, a cow grazing on one acre of land produces enough meat to sustain a person for two and a half months; soybeans grown on that same acre would nourish a person for seven years. The beef in just one Big Mac represents enough wheat to make five loaves of bread.
34. Amount of grain needed to end extreme hunger - 40 million tons. Amount of grain fed to animals in the West - 540 million tons.

Imagine sitting down to an eight-ounce steak. Then imagine the room filled with 45 to 50 people with empty bowls in front of them. For the 'feed cost' of your steak, each of their bowls could be filled with a full cup of cooked cereal grains.

36. The process of converting plant proteins into animal proteins is extremely wasteful:
    • Number of human beings who could be fed by the grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock: 1,300,000,000.
    • Percentage of oats grown in United States eaten by livestock: 95%
    • Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 90%
    • Percentage of carbohydrate wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 99%
    • Percentage of dietary fiber wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 100%
    • Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on 1 acre of land: 20,000 lbs
    • Pounds of beef that can be produced on 1 acre of land: 165 lbs
    • Percentage of U.S. agricultural land used to produce beef: 56%
    • Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce 1 pound of feedlot beef: 16 lbs
    • Pounds of protein fed to chickens to produce 1 pound of protein as chicken flesh: 5 lbs
    • Pounds of protein fed to hogs to produce 1 pound of protein as hog flesh: 7.5 lbs
37. It takes 2,500 gallons of water, 12 pounds of grain, 35 pounds of topsoil and the energy equivalent of one gallon of gasoline to produce one pound of feedlot beef.
38. Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of wheat: 25
39. Amount of water used in production of the average cow: sufficient to float a destroyer.
40. The amount of water used to produce a single hamburger is enough for 17 showers.
41. It takes 3 kilos of grain to produce 1 kilo of eggs. Each battery egg takes about 180 liters of water to produce. The poorest people on earth have only 10 liters of water a day.
42. Producing a kilo of feedlot beef takes about 50 times more water than a kilo of Soya beans or rice. Even chicken, the most "efficient" modern meat industry uses about twice as much water per kilo as soybeans or rice.
    • Potatoes 500 liters
    • Wheat 900 liters
    • Alfalfa 900 liters
    • Sorghum 1110 liters
    • Maize 1400 liters
    • Rice 1910 liters
    • Soya beans 2000 liters
    • Chicken 3500 liters
    • Beef (feedlot) 100,000 liters
43. Organic waste from cattle and other livestock, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, agricultural salts and sediments are the primary source of water pollution in the U.S. Cattle produce nearly 1 billion tons of organic waste each year. The average feedlot steer produces more than 47 pounds of manure every twenty-four hours. Nearly 500,000 pounds of manure are produced daily on a standard 10,000- head feedlot. This is the rough equivalent of what a city of 110,000 would produce in human waste.
44. Factory farms dump raw sewage into rivers and streams, making animal agriculture the leading contributor to water pollution. In the U.S. intensive confinement farming contributes to 70% of river pollution and 49% of lake pollution. Farmed animals produce 68,000 pounds of manure per second, 5 tons of manure for every U.S. person and 130 times as much fecal matter as the entire human population.
45. Livestock and poultry in the United States produce 158 million tons of phosphate loaded, feed additive and drug containing manure per year.
46. A typical pig factory generates raw waste equal to that of a city of 12,000 people.
47. North Carolina's 7,000,000 factory-raised hogs create 4 times as much waste - stored in reeking, open cesspools - as the state's 6.5 million people. The Delmarva Peninsula's 600 million chickens produce 400,000 tons of manure a year.
48. Animal waste is rich in nitrogen, much of which escapes (as ammonia) into the air from waste storage pits and from field application of animal wastes. Rain then deposits the nitrogen into water, and into land where it can run into waterways. Excessive nitrogen feeds algae growth and depletes the oxygen supply, killing fish and other aquatic life.
49. In 1996, U.S. factory farms produced 1.4 billion tons of animal waste—130 times more than humans did. The waste produced in a single year would fill 6.7 million train boxcars—enough to circle the earth 12 1/2 times.
50. 95-99 % of toxic chemicals residue in the American diet come from animal sources.
51. Rainforests are being destroyed at a rate of 125,000 square miles per year to create space to raise animals for food. 55 square feet of land are consumed for every quarter pound of fast-food burger made of rainforest beef.
52. Between 1960 and 1985 alone, nearly 40% of all Central American rainforests were destroyed to create cheap grazing land for cows later served on North American and European plates.
53. If tomorrow people in the U.S. will make a radical change away from their meat-centered diets, 200 million acres could be returned to a forest.
54. Meat production has led to the erosion of billions of acres of formerly productive farmland and to the devastation of rainforests.
55. The meat industry is directly responsible for 85% of all soil erosion in the U.S., because so much grain is needed to feed animals, raised for food. In the U.S., animals are fed more than 80% of the corn and more than 95% of the oats. The world's cattle alone (300 million per year) consume a quantity of food equal to the caloric needs of 8.7 billion people - more than the entire human population on earth.
56. The United States has lost one third of its topsoil. An estimated six of the seven billion tons of eroded soil is directly attributable to grazing and unsustainable methods of grazing. Each pound of feedlot steak costs about 35 pounds of eroded American topsoil.
57. Intensive animal agriculture uses a disproportionate amount of fossil fuels. Supplying the world with a typical American meat-based diet would deplete all world oil reserves in just a few years.
58. It now takes the equivalent of a gallon of gasoline to produce a pound of grain fed beef in the United States.
59. The annual beef consumption of an average American family of four requires more than 260 gallons of fuel and releases 2.5 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, as much as the average car over a six month period.
60. One-half of all the energy used in American agriculture is used to produce meat.
61. A single hamburger patty requires enough fuel to drive 20 miles and causes the loss of 5 times its weight in top-soil.
62. Factory farming production contributes significantly to the production of three gases - carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane - they are all build-up in the atmosphere and blocks heat from leaving the earth and thereby causes global warming.
63. More CO2 is created by our highly mechanized agriculture which uses huge amounts of fossil fuels. With 70% of all U.S. grain production now devoted to livestock feed, the energy burned just to produce the feed represents a significant addition to CO2.

Even the most selfish argument is not working.
The meat is killing humans and they don’t care.
So do you really believe that they will care that an animal has been killed for them?

The tragical irony is that even when the animal rights movement gives up on the idea of developing caring towards non human animals and turn to caring for the children’s future, using the “for the environment argument” or caring for their own kind using the “for the hungry” argument or caring for themselves - the hopelessness summit, using the “for your health” argument, it doesn’t help.
Nothing helps. Not even when the animal rights movement reaches the lowest point. Stop wasting your time.