US Babe Leaflet
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Guide 1 – Nutrition in a Nutshell – edited by Michael Klaper, MD. What can Discusses why a plant based diet is healthy and nutritious. Includes a vitamin you do? chart and where to obtain all the nutrients you need on a veggie diet. Guide 2 – The Healthiest Diet of All – Go veggie! introduction by Neal Barnard, MD. Animals raised Explains how our diet affects our health. Listing many of the for food live common diseases, it reviews the latest research and shows how sad lives full of a veggie lifestyle is healthy. pain and misery. Guide 3 – Murder She Wrote – Get your school to by Juliet Gellatley, founder and International Director of Viva! start carrying tofu Explores the truth behind modern factory farming and slaughter – dogs and other color pictures throughout. non-animal items. With more veggie Guide 4 – Planet on a Plate – introduction by Dr. David Brubaker items on the menu Describes how eating animals is ravaging the planet. it will be easier to convince others to Guide 5 – Stop Bugging Me – try going veggie. edited by Dr. Emanuel Goldman Viva! can help you Discusses the types of food poisoning that you risk when you along the way. eat animals. Encourage your ✂ friends and family to stop eating animals too! YES, I want to join Viva! and encourage others to stop eating animals. Enclosed is a donation of: ❏ $10 ❏ $15 ❏ $25 ❏ $50 ❏ Other $ ................ (please check appropriate box) Go veggie YES, I want to get involved and learn more. Please send me: with Viva! Want to learn more Items: Price each Quantity Total about how animals are raised and slaughtered for ‘When Pigs Cry’ Action Pack Free food? Want more information on the Guide 1 $1 health benefits of a Guide 2 $2 vegan lifestyle? Guide 3 $2 Viva! has five guides Guide 4 $1 available to give you more reasons Guide 5 $1 why you should go veggie! Total: $ s&h (please add 50c per guide): $ (Please make check payable to Viva!) Donation (thank you): $ Who OR please charge my credit card (Visa or Mastercard only) number: Please return Signature: .................................................................. Exp: .................................... coupon to: (required for credit card charges) loves Viva!, PO Box 4398, Davis, CA 95617 First Name: ....................................... Last Name: ................................................. Tel: 530/759-VIVA (8482) ya, W: www.vivausa.org Address: .................................................................................................................. E: [email protected] City: ............................................................................ State: ................................. Babe? Contributions to Viva! We do – that’s why we don’t eat ya! are tax deductible Zipcode: ............................................ Tel: .............................................................. Unlike Babe the movie star, pigs can’t talk. If they could, Ten they’d have plenty to say. reasons This is the story of one real piglet – to go and millions of others like him. veggie “My mom couldn’t even reach to nuzzle me…” “Metal – that’s the first My friends became very ill, 1. You’ll save the lives of 4. Animals raised for eggs because they are not thing I saw in my life. Metal some died from severe 2,460 chickens, 96 and milk are slaughtered cleaned. walls, metal floor and bars. diarrhea, meningitis, and turkeys, 32 pigs and when their production Behind the bars was my pneumonia.” 12 cows in your lifetime. goes down. 9. Chickens are fed anti- mom, laying on the hard biotics daily to try to slats – no bedding of any “It was nine weeks before 2. According to the 5. There are virtually no stop the spread of kind. She bent her head we were moved again. This American Dietetic laws to protect farmed disease. Up to 100,000 round and tried to lick me concrete stall is filthy and Association, vegetarian animals from cruelty. are crammed in sheds. clean but couldn’t reach.” crowded. We even sleep on diets are associated with Some have broken bones the concrete in the stench of a reduced risk for obesity, 6. Fishing is causing the or deformed legs and “A few days later, a man our own droppings. We all coronary artery disease, ecological collapse of feet by the time they crushed two of my sharpest feel like screaming and hypertension, diabetes the oceans. are killed at just six teeth and cut off my tail. I fights keep breaking out. mellitus, colorectal cancer, weeks old. didn’t know why and all I The weak ones are bullied lung cancer, and kidney 7. We can almost double can remember is the terrible all the time, with no escape. disease. the amount of people on 10. Many animals are Actor James Cromwell, who pain. All over the pig house I now know why our teeth earth who could be fed slaughtered while was the sound of squealing, played Farmer Hoggett in and tails were done – to stop Vegetarians have 24% on a purely vegetarian still conscious. screaming piglets.” Babe says: “If any kid ever the biting.” lower rates of heart diet as compared to realized what was involved in disease when compared everyone eating 25% “After only three weeks “I’ve heard that tomorrow to non-vegetarians with of their calories from factory farming they would everything changed. I was I’m going to die – turned similar lifestyles. animal products. With the single grabbed and pushed into a never touch meat again. into ham, bacon, pepperoni, decision to stop barren dark room with a I was so moved by sausages and hot dogs. I’m 3. On average, you can get 8. Almost all pigs are factory eating animals you metal floor and a crowd the intelligence, sense of only five months old and about five times as much farmed. They are often in of other piglets. We were I’ve never seen trees or biologically available dark, barren, overcrowded cease to play a part fun and personalities of the too little to leave our moms fields, I’ve never felt the rain protein from eating plant pens and suffer from in this insanity. and we huddled together, animals I worked with on or the warmth of the sun. foods directly as you can broken bones, abscesses, frightened and alone. We Babe that by the end of the My life has been horrible from using them to ruptured stomachs, had no straw to lie on, and no one cares.” produce meat. pneumonia, meningitis, Go on, be an film I was vegetarian.” nothing to play with and cuts and wounds which eco-babe and nothing to do. If you care, contact Viva! often kill the piglets go veggie today! ‘In this place, no one cares.’ Ill piglet Piglets crammed into a barren cell Crates in intensive units prevent the ‘Let us out of here’ Dead pig left to rot in gangway An emaciated, ill pig in squalid, left on feces-covered concrete mothers from reaching their young cramped conditions.