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1. Why being vegan is a good idea: the truth
about food and fashion industry.
Fashion
The fashion in industry uses many different types of animals to produce all sorts
fashion products- from bags to coats to shoes. Many animals are killed for their
skins and fur to produce leather and fur products.
What happen the unfortunate animals in the fur industry?
Fur farm animals are kept in cramped, filthy wired cages. The poor animals
spend their lives confined to a cage, just to be killed for their fur. What type of a
live is that for an animal? Fur farmers usually end the animals’ life in the
cheapest and cruellest way possible- some are even skinned alive for their fur!
Some animals are hunted down in the wild for their fur. Victims of the fur
hunting and fur farming industry include tigers, minks, bears, foxes and many
more!
Alternates to using real fur… glamour without guilt
Fortunately faux fur is available from so many stores around the world. Faux fur
is just a fraction of the price of real fur. Faux fur coats can range from around
£50-£200, which is a massive saving from a £14,000 mink coat. Faux is available
from House of Fraser, Missguided, Topshop and many more fashion shops. Why
would someone want to wear something that took away an animals life?
What goes on in the leather industry?
More than a billion animals are slaughtered globally in the leather industry,
every year. Some people may assume leather is a by-product of the meat
industry, however most of the leather sold is produced from animals being killed
primarily for their skins. Most leather is made from cows, but they aren’t alone:
cats, dogs, goats, snakes, alligators and more. A lot of leather comes from India
and China, whose animal welfare laws are virtually none existent.
Alternatives:
Synthetic leather is available in almost all fashion shops, at a cheaper price than
real leather-why pay more!
Food
Animals are used to produce all kinds different foods-mainly meat and dairy. An
animal has to be killed to produce meat like chicken, beef, pork and more!
Animals in the dairy industry - the vast majority being cows and chickens-go
through suffering for products like milk, eggs, cheese, cream and many other
dairy products!

2. The meat industry…
Many animals are killed for meat every single day, all over the world. There are
317 approved slaughterhouses in the UK- a very large amount. From cows to
pigs to chickens, these are just a couple of the many animals, which are killed for
their meat. Despite the welfare laws that are put in place for animals in the meat
industry, these laws were still broken on over 4,000 occasions in the last two
years. The breaches involved chickens being boiled alive and pigs being handled
by their ears and tails, birds left in an abattoir for 20 hours and 600 instances of
animals arriving to slaughterhouses dead. Animal Aid chose 10 slaughterhouses
at random to secretly film inside; a whopping 9 of 10 they visited showed
evidence of cruelty and law- breaking. Doesn’t sound nice, does it?
Where to get protein from other than meat…
Quorn have a lot of vegan products ,which are high in protein! Beans, nuts and
quinoa are few of many foods than contribute to protein in taken!
The dairy industry: the truth behind eggs and milk
The dairy industry is something people may not think results in animal cruelty,
like the meat industry- unfortunately it does! Animals, which are used in the
dairy industry, will eventually suffer the same fate as the animals used for meat
production-DEATH. The most common animals used in dairy production are
cows and chickens; cows are used to produce milk and chickens are used to
produce eggs.
So what happens to the cows in the dairy industry?
Female cows are artificially inseminated every year to produce milk, at a steady
rate. Usually a cow would only produce enough milk for its calf/calves but they
are forced to produce much more! Most cows are fed a growth hormone called
‘bovine growth hormone’, which causes their udders to become big and heavy as
a result. When a dairy cow’s calves are born, they are separated from their
mothers after a couple of days or even straight away. A cow goes through the
milking process another 3-10 times before she is eventually killed for her meat!
And what happens their calves?
The female calves will be forced to share the same fate as their mothers. The
male calves will be raised and slaughtered for their meat. Some male calves will
be raised for beef, whereas some will be used for veal. Veal calves are killed for
“white” veal and “bob” veal. White veal is produced from calves that have been

3. slaughtered at just 16 weeks of age. Shockingly, “bob” veal comes from calves
that have been killed at only a few hours or day old.
The cruelty free answer to milk?
Soya milk!
What happens to dairy chickens?
Newborn chicks born in the dairy industry are sexed and sorted straight away.
Healthy female chicks will become dairy chickens whereas weak female chicks
will be killed, before they have even had a chance to ‘live’. The healthy chickens
will be genetically manipulated to produce extortionate amounts of egg annually;
much more they would normally produce. Some chickens will be forced to life in
cages, where they can’t even spread their wings. Eventually their egg production
will decline at 18-24 months old and they will not be of use anymore, so they will
be killed.
If this happens to the female chicks, wonder what happen to male chicks?
Sadly, there is no place for male chicks who are born into the dairy industry.
They are disposed of. They are classed as a by-product for two reasons: they
cannot produce eggs and aren’t suitable for meat production either! Male chicks
are either killed by quick maceration or gassed with high concentrations of
carbon dioxide, which could take up to two minutes for the chick to die. This is
the harsh reality of being a male chick in the dairy industry.