Calves raised for veal live in crates too small for them to even turn around. If the calf is female, she will join her mother on the dairy line. If the calf is male, he will be sold to a veal farm within the first one to three days of his life. Veal calves spend their entire lives chained inside a crate too small for them to even turn around . Having never felt the grass beneath their feet, veal calves are sent to slaughter after 16 weeks of intense confinement.
Cows have their throats slit while hanging upside down.
Eating meat not only destroys our health and animals' lives, it's also killing the environmental integrity of our planet. More than any other human activity, raising animals for food is the leading cause of environmental degradation and resource depletion throughout the world today. In California, it takes only 23 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of tomatoes. At the same time, it takes 5,214 gallons to produce 1 pound of beef. Millions of acres of forests have been clear-cut to provide grazing land.