Morality

99
%
of animals killed for food in the US are factory farmed.

Hannah Ritchie (2023) - "How many animals are factory-farmed?" Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: ‘https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-are-factory-farmed’ [Online Resource]

While most of them have a long life expectancy,
we humans, chose to end it early for them...
Slaughter age:
4 years
Cows' life expectancy: 20 years
Slaughter age:
6 months
Pigs' life expectancy: 12 years
Slaughter age:
7 weeks
Chickens' life expectancy: 8 years
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
Gandhi
"As long as men massacre animals. They will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love."
Pythagoras
"The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but can they suffer?"
Jeremy Bentham
"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
Leonardo Da Vinci
"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake."
Martin Luther King Jr.