The argument between animal liberationists and non-vegans is radically unbalanced. One side has solid arguments, coherent logic and tens of thousands of conclusive filmed, photographed and written evidences of the billions of abused victims every single year. While the other side has a desire to keep enjoying the products they like so much and a motivation to maintain its habits no matter how cruel they are.
Humans don’t have arguments, because there is no argument that can justify consumption of animal products.
No matter how rational and comprehensive an argument is, it loses against motivation.
The problem is not with the message nor the messengers but with the addressees.

Regardless of their age, education, social economic status and origin they all use exactly the same excuses:
What about how other animals kill and eat each other?
Human beings are a part of the food chain!
Doesn't the Bible say that humans have dominion over the animals?
If God did not want us to eat meat, then why did he place animals on the Earth?
How do you know that plants can not feel pain?
What about insects?
Would you rather save your child or your dog?
But where would I get my protein?
BACON!
People come first!

How can the animal rights movement ever hope to win over such an enormous number of humans with such a limitless capacity to materialize and rationalize their desires?

It cannot be that so many people are so stupid, they simply prefer not to think. Humans are so careless that they don’t even bother thinking of less ridicules excuses, not to mention actually thinking about the "moral dilemma".
Even when activists try to convince others to become vegans or even vegetarians for their own benefit – exposing very harsh facts about the health hazards related with animal products consumption, they don't stop.

There is nothing reasonable about consuming animal products. Dozens of researches and hundreds of facts prove how unhealthy, irresponsible and irrational it is. But humans don’t consume animals because it is healthy, environmental, efficient or reasonable, they do it because that’s what they want to.

Humans are too self-indulgent that they ignore the outright 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.

Selfish Reasons to Go Vegan

1. Vegans live 6 to 10 years longer than meat eaters.
2. The largest U.S. managed care organization, Kaiser Permanente, published a report to train its physicians to support a plant-based nutrition - "A healthy, plant-based diet aims to maximize consumption of nutrient-dense plant foods, in their whole form, while minimizing processed foods, oils, and animal foods (including dairy products and eggs). It encourages lots of vegetables (cooked or raw), fruits, beans, peas, lentils, soybeans, seeds, and nuts (in smaller amounts) and is generally low fat."
3. Antioxidants, which are prevalent in plant-biased diet have been shown to protect against more than 60 diseases, they are found mostly in fruit and vegetables.
4. 70% of food poisoning is caused by meat, as admitted by the USDA, food poisoning symptoms range from stomach cramps and diarrhea to organ failure and death. Every year in the US, there are 75 million cases of food poisoning, and 5,000 of these cases are fatal.
5. A British insurance agency offers non-meat eaters a discount on premiums. The firm said vegetarians should pay less for the life insurance cover because they were less likely to suffer from a range of chronic illnesses. Its managing director said to the press: "The risk of vegetarians suffering from some cancers is reduced by up to 40% and from heart disease by up to 30%, but despite this they have to pay the same life insurance premiums as meat eaters.

Heart Diseases

6. An animal based diet is high in saturated fat, animal protein and cholesterol, which increases the risk for cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke - the number one health problem in the US, and according to the American Heart Association the leading cause of death.
7. According to the World Health Organization cardiovascular diseases account for nearly 50% of all deaths in the European region, further stating that "80% of premature heart disease and stroke is preventable".
8. A 2012 Harvard School of Public Health study found that people who eat red and processed meats are much more likely to die from heart disease, diabetes, or cancer.
9. Consumption of animal products has been found to cause many more diseases including various types of cancer (breast, prostate, colon, esophagus, stomach, rectum, endometrium, kidney, lung and pancreas), diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, several autoimmune diseases (such as Multiple Sclerosis), kidney stones, gallstones, appendicitis, osteoporosis, cataracts, hemorrhoids, anemia, hiatal hernia, asthma, acne, obesity ,constipation, allergies and fatigue.
10. Not only that a vegan diet reduces the risk of developing the diseases mentioned above, conditions such as artery and heart disease, adult diabetes, MS, and varied cancers have been widely documented to "regress" by a plant biased diet.
11. In countries where the diet is largely or wholly plant-based, diseases of the heart and circulatory system and certain cancers are rarer.

Cancer

12. According to the World Health Organization and the National Cancer Institute diet accounts for up to 40% of all cancers.
13. In October 2015 the IARC, the cancer agency of the World Health Organization declared processed meat including hot dogs, ham, bacon, sausage, salami, corned beef, beef jerky, canned meat and meat-based sauces as carcinogen. Red meats were labeled as "probably carcinogenic".
14. The WHO also stated that 50g of processed meat a day - less than two average slices of bacon - increase the chance of developing colorectal cancer by 18%.
15. Vegetarians have lower blood levels of estrogen- a hormone which is linked to testicular and prostate cancer, and also breast and ovarian cancer. Vegans have even lower levels of estrogen, and accordingly also have fewer cases of those cancers.
16. Dairy products have high levels of estrogen and progesterone in them, as most of the milk is produced by pregnant cows. A study Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests that women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer who eat full-fat dairy products after diagnosis are more likely to die from breast cancer.
17. High-fat diets of animal products are often devoid of fiber. Low fiber intake increases the risk of colorectal cancer, as fiber shortens the amount of time that wastes travel through the colon. A Harvard study showed that daily meat eaters have approximately three times the colon cancer risk, compared to those who rarely eat meat.
18. Vegan diet reduces the fatal prostate cancer risk by 35% according to a vast 2016 study of more than 26,000 men, funded by the World Cancer Research Fund.

Cholesterol

19. 100 grams of cows’ flesh contains 85 milligrams of cholesterol. A same-size piece of skinned chicken meat also has 85 milligrams of cholesterol. Equivalent portion of pigs’, trout’s or turkey’s bodies can also clog arteries with 90, 73, and 82 milligrams of cholesterol, respectively.
20. Vegans have zero cholesterol in their diet and tend to have lower intake of saturated fats compered to meat eaters.
21. Vegetarians and vegans are consistently shown to have cholesterol levels lower than meat-eaters.
22. Cholesterol levels of vegans living in Western countries were measured in 17 studies between 1980 and 2002 - the average cholesterol level of vegans was 160 compared to 202 mg/dl for meat eaters.
23. Levels of LDL (the cholesterol type that tend to accumulate in artery walls) were 25% lower- 90 mg/dl as oppose to 120 mg/dl.
24. A 2013 Oxford study of more than 44,000 people reported that vegetarians were 32% less likely to develop ischemic heart disease.

Diabetes

25. A number of clinical trials have now shown that a vegan diet can reduce blood sugar, lower body weight, and improve other parameters for type 2 diabetes.
26. Vegans have a 68% lower rate of diabetes than non-vegetarians, according to an American 2009 report which is part of an on-going epidemiological study of almost 10,000 participants. Vegans were shown to have the lowest rates of diabetes of any diet groups.
27. Diabetes is not only related to an animal-based diet, it is also aggravated by it. 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.
28. In a 2011Czech Republic clinical trial study comparing a vegetarian (near-vegan) diet to a "conventional" diet among type 2 diabetics, the near-vegan group had a greater reduction in diabetes medication (43% vs. 5%), HbA1c (an indicator of poorer control of blood glucose levels), waist circumference, and body fat.

Various Ingredients

29. Other Ingredients in Animal Flesh:
• Dioxins, which are referred to as the most toxic of all man-made chemicals. Linked to cancer, disrupted hormones, neurological effects in children and adults, immune system changes and skin disorders. According to the EPA nearly 95% of dioxin exposure comes from meat, fish, and dairy products.
• Heavy metals like mercury and chromium, and polychlorinated biphenols- substances that concentrate "at the top of the food chain".
• Various parasitic worms in fishes, trichinella in pigs.
• Excrements. In 2011 the USDA reported that 90% of defects discovered in chicken carcasses at slaughterhouses involved "visible fecal contamination that was missed by company employees". Also, waste of other animals, is mixed into the animal feed on a regular basis.
• Disease organisms like salmonella, E coli, listeria, campylobacter, toxoplasmosis and brucellosis. Around 25% of cut-up chicken meat and about 50% of all ground chicken sold in stores is contaminated with salmonella according to the USDA.
• Preservatives, flavors and food coloring agents.
• Heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are flagged as carcinogenic by the NIH. They form when corpses are fried, smoked or grilled over an open flame.

Antibiotics


30. Antibiotics given to livestock make up roughly two-thirds of the global use of antibiotics. According to the USDA, in the US it is about 70%.
31. New strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria evolved due to the constant antibiotics use. Animal agriculture is a leading cause in the alarming development of antibiotic resistant organisms, according to the CDC, FDA and USDA.
32. Animal products on grocery store shelves are contaminated with bacteria which cannot be killed with conventional antibiotics. An extensive CDDEP (the center for disease dynamics economics & policy) report states that cows, chickens, and pigs raised on antibiotics contain "significant populations of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which are transmitted to humans through direct contact with the animals and through their meat, eggs, and milk."
33. The CDC states that today two million Americans suffer from illness and 23,000 die due to antibiotic resistant pathogens. In Europe, the number is about 25,000 deaths.
34. CDC director Tom Frieden- "if we are not careful we will soon be in a post antibiotic era, and for some patients and for some microbes we are already there".
35. The WHO warns that the world faces huge public health threat due to antimicrobial resistance that could affect anyone of any age. "Without urgent, coordinated action by many stakeholders, the world is headed for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries which have been treatable for decades can once again kill," said Dr Keiji Fukuda, WHO's assistant director general for health security.
36. Several reports predict that antibiotic resistant infections will kill 10 million people a year by 2050.

Wastefulness


37. The human race is failing in a very simple task, feeding itself. It takes 1/6th acre of land to grow food to feed one person on a vegan diet. It takes 3 acres- 18 times more land to feed a meat eater.
38. A 10-acre farm can support 60 people growing soybeans, 24 people growing wheat, 10 people growing corn and only two by the exploitation of cows.
39. The meat in just one Big Mac represents enough wheat to make five loaves of bread.
40. The average American eats 99 pounds of chicken per year - that adds up to 495 pounds of grain per person. A person on a primarily plant-based diet consumes about 440 pounds of grain per year. Mathematically speaking, if each of the 317 million people in the United States gave up chickens alone, that grain could theoretically be used to feed roughly 356 million of the world’s hungry a plant-based diet. The "production" of one pound of chicken (the "consumable" parts) is estimated to take 4.5 pounds of grains.
41. The "production" of one pound of pig flesh (the "consumable" parts) is estimated to take 7.3 pounds of grains.
42. The "production" of one pound of cow flesh (the "consumable" parts) is estimated to take 12 - 20 pounds of grains.
43. Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on 1 acre of land: 20,000 lbs
44. Pounds of beef that can be produced on 1 acre of land: 165 lbs
45. Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce 1 pound of feedlot beef: 16 lbs
46. Also, one pound of beef consumes 35 pounds of topsoil and the energy equivalent of one gallon of gasoline

Water


47. Gallons of water needed to produce one hamburger: 660
    Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of cow flesh: up to 2,500
    Gallons of water needed to produce a gallon of milk:1,000
    Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of wheat: 132
48. The amount of water used to produce a single hamburger is enough for 60 showers (based on taking a 4-minute daily shower with a 2.5 gallons per minute shower head).
49. Producing 1 kg of feedlot beef takes about 50 times more water than a kilo of soy beans or rice. Even chicken, the most "efficient" modern meat industry uses about twice as much water per kilo as soybeans and almost 4 times more than corn.
50. According to Water Footprint these are the global average amount of water required in the production of 1kg of various items (in litters):
• Potatoes 250
• Wheat bread 1,300
• Banana 860
• Cabbage 200
• Apples 700
• Corn 900
• Rice 3,400
• Sugar 1,500
• Chicken 3,900
• Pigs 4,800
• Cow 15,500
51. Considering that the average human needs to drink approximately 1 gallon of clean water per day, and with the global population topping 7 billion people, 2.7 billion of them facing clean water scarcity- just one person’s decision to cut out meat could free up the water needed for 445 people.
52. Worldwide, each day cows alone drink 45 billion gallons of water (based on an average of 30 gallons of water for 1.5 billion cows).

Pollution


53. Factory farms dump raw sewage into rivers and streams, making animal agriculture the leading contributor to water pollution.
54. According to the United States General Accounting Office 130 times more animal waste than human waste is produced in the US – 1.4 billion tons from the meat industry annually. 5 tons of animal waste is produced per person in the US.
55. Every minute 7 million pounds of excrement are produced by animals exploited for food in the US, a USDA report concluded .This doesn’t include the billions of fish raised in "aquaculture".
56. Livestock and poultry manure is loaded with phosphate, feed additives, hormons, and various drugs and antibiotics.
57. The EPA suggests that one dairy farm with 2,500 cows produces as much waste as a city with around 411,000 residents.
58. A typical pig factory generates raw waste equal to that of a city of 12,000 people.
    
59. Animal waste is also rich in nitrogen, much of which escapes (as ammonia) into the air from waste storage pits and from field application of animal wastes. The nitrogen eventually reaches waterways which feeds algae growth and depletes the oxygen supply, killing fish and other aquatic life. Livestock operations on land have created more than 500 vast nitrogen flooded zones around the world according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Deforestation


60. About 129 million hectares of forest - an area almost equivalent in size to South Africa - have been cut since 1990, according to FAO's most comprehensive forest review to date, The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015.
61. The leading causes of rainforest destruction are livestock and feed crops- according to a FAO report. About 136 million acres have been cleared for animal agriculture.
62. Animal agriculture is responsible for up to 91% of Amazon destruction. According to a World Bank report.
63. Livestock and livestock feed occupies a third of the earth’s ice-free land according to the FAO report.
64. Meat production has led to the erosion of billions of acres. The UN states that a third of the planet is decertified, with livestock as the leading driver.
65. About 12 million hectares is lost each year to land degradation, according to the UN which states that intensive farming is a main cause, as it depletes the nutrients in the soil.
66. A single hamburger is estimated to cause the loss of 5 times its weight in top-soil.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions


67. According to an FAO report animal agriculture is responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the combined exhaust from all transportation which stands at 13%.
68. According to WorldWatch institute livestock and their byproducts account for 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions (at least 32,000 million tons of CO2 per year).
69. The EPA has recognized that globally livestock are the "largest source of methane from human related activities".
70. Nitrous oxide which is about 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas is released into the atmosphere in significant amounts when manure and urine from farmed animals break down. The nitrogen-based fertilizers often used in vast quantities to grow animal feed are another major source of the gas.
71. Oxford researches published in Climate Change journal a study finding that in the UK vegetarian and vegan diets have 32% and 49% lower greenhouse gas emissions, respectively, than medium-meat diets. Compared to high-meat diets, the difference was even higher, with vegan diets emitting 60% less greenhouse gasses.
72. Eating a pound of beef has more impact on climate change than burning a gallon of gasoline and a single hamburger requires enough fuel to drive 20 miles.

All these facts and a lot more which regard humans self-interests do not convince them.

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

The tragic irony is that even when the animal rights movement gives up on the idea of developing care towards nonhuman animals and turns to care for the children’s future, using "the environmental argument" or care for their own kind using "the hunger argument" or caring for themselves - the hopelessness summit, using "the health argument", it doesn’t help. Not even when the animal rights movement reaches the lowest point. Isn’t time for you to change course?