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"WHAT FOR?" flyer
campaign
From April to June, 2005, Vegetarian Action conducted a
flyer campaign in the Adelaide metropolitan area (see above),
aimed at raising public awareness of the killing on a massive
scale that lies behind the meat.
More than 50 billion animal lives are taken each year to
feed the human demand for meat.
This killing is not only brutal, but unnecessary - and
therefore, unjustified. On both moral and scientific (nutritional)
grounds, this campaign aims to encourage people to think
twice about killing for food.
Vegetarian Action's supporters are invited to contribute
to our public education campaigns by distributing flyers.
If you're interested in hearing about or taking part in
future campaigns, become a Vegetarian
Action supporter.
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Click
here to view both sides of the flyer in pdf format
Animals Killed for Food: the stark facts
According to the most recent detailed report from the UN Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO), the worldwide number of animals
killed for food in 2001 was 47.9 billion. This included 301
million cattle, buffalo and calves, 1.2 billion pigs, 788 million
sheep and goats, and 45.6 billion chicken, ducks, turkeys and geese.
(1)
The actual number of deaths, however, far exceeds this figure,
which omits:
- "non-slaughter" deaths (from disease, malnutrition, injury,
suffocation, stress, or other deadly factors associated with animal
farming)
- slaughters in countries that have no reporting procedures in
place
- 'backyard' slaughters (generally not reported), and
- the killing of fish and other aquatic animals, whether farmed
or wild-caught.(2)
Also excluded from this report are the killing of:
- less commonly eaten species, such as game animals (deer, partridges,
pheasants, pigeons, quails, rabbits, etc)
- 'exotic' animals (crocodiles, emu, ostriches, etc)
- 'traditional food' animals (cats, camels, dogs, frogs, snails,
snakes, etc), and
- any other animal not mentioned in the report, whether farmed
or part of natural populations.
The Food and Agriculture Organization report on animals slaughtered
for food in 2003 shows an increase of 4.5 billion from 2001, resulting
in 52.4 billion reported "slaughter" deaths.(3)
(1) FARM Report, Winter/Spring 2002, www.farmusa.org
(2) World Farm Animals Day 2004, 25 September,
2004, www.wfad.org
(3) Ibid
GET INVOLVED: Vegetarian Action campaign flyers can be supplied
free of charge to Vegetarian Action supporters for distribution,
and Supporters are invited to come along to hand out flyers with
us and to participate in our activities in other ways. To be in
the loop on future events and have the chance to participate,
why not become a Vegetarian Action supporter?
Click here to find out more.
Page updated: 2007
Whichever way you look, the future
is vegetarian...
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