Why actually vegan?
The vast majority of people say of themselves that they are against animal cruelty. At the same time, almost all of us unconsciously pay for unbelievable animal suffering in the animal industry. Therefore, we ask you to see with your own eyes what the standards in this industry look like and what happens even with organic animals for milk, meat, eggs and other animal products:
Everything you see in this documentary only happens as long as we pay for it. For you, living vegan makes a small difference in how your meals taste. For the animals, it saves everything you see in the documentary.
Meat industry
Pigs are more intelligent than dogs, they are equally playful, empathetic and sentient individuals.
Yet the legal standard is to confine them for life to 0.7m² and castrate them without anaesthesia. Forcing their mothers into crate stalls where they cannot even turn around. Babies that are too weak are smashed on the concrete floor, and all the others are finally killed with the help of gas chambers and electric shocks.
See for yourself in the documentary above from minute 4:10.
If you wouldn't do that to a dog, why would you do it to a pig?
Mother pig in a crate stall
Gassed male chicks
Egg industry
Chickens would live in small groups in the wild, lay 15 eggs a year and lovingly raise these babies.
In the egg industry, they hatch in incubators, and immediately after birth the male chicks are sorted out and shredded or gassed because it is not profitable for them to continue living. Their sisters are crammed together by the thousands in a completely degrading manner and have to lay up to 300 eggs a year, which causes them to collapse physically after only 18 months. After that, they too end up hanging upside down with their throats slit in the slaughterhouse.
See for yourself in the documentary above from minute 23:20.
Egg alternatives make little difference to us, but they save us from a cruel fate.
Dairy industry
Cows, like us, have a strong maternal instinct, protect and lovingly care for their children.
Every year they are artificially inseminated for milk, and immediately after birth the children are snatched from their screaming mothers. Males are sent to the slaughterhouse as they are of no use. The females themselves are exploited for milk for 5-6 years until they die of exhaustion, then killed in the slaughterhouse. All this happens even with the most expensive organic cow's milk.
See for yourself in the documentary above from minute 53:00.
It is infinitely harder for the cow to give up her babies, her milk and her life than it is for us to live without dairy products.
A mother cow cries for her baby
Severed heads of fish
Fishing
Fish have a similar nervous system to mammals or even humans. They are just as capable of feeling pain.
After tens of thousands of them are caught in a trawl, those individuals at the bottom of the net die from the pressure of their fellow species lying on top of them. The others either suffocate on board, or are killed by humans in further "processing". In addition to this suffering, whales, dolphins, sharks, turtles and seabirds die as "by-catch".
See for yourself, in the documentary above from 1:21:55.
They cannot scream, but that does not reduce their agony.
However, living vegan not only helps the animals, but also has a number of benefits for us humans:
Living vegan is healthier!
Living vegan is not only appropriate and healthy at all stages of life, according to the world's largest nutrition organizations, but it also makes an important contribution to the prevention of diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer, the leading causes of death in Austria.
To learn more about the health benefits, watch The Game Changers on Netflix.
Veganism protects the environment!
Living vegan is the biggest individual contribution each of us can make against climate change so that future generations can live on this planet.
90% of the world's deforested rainforests are used for animal feed.
To learn more, you can watch Cowspiracy on Netflix.
Veganism prevents pandemics!
Three quarters of all new infectious pathogens are zoonotic in origin, meaning they have been transmitted from animals to humans. Diseases like Covid-19, avian flu, swine flu, Ebola, Nipah, HIV would not exist in a vegan world.
By going vegan, you help prevent further pandemics and save lives.