Veganism saves animals from the horrors of the slaughterhouse, reduces pollution from factory farms, and preserves soybeans and grain for the millions of malnourished people in our hungry world. Animals Vegans are motivated by compassion for suffering and respect for life. Both modern science and simple common sense tell us that other animals besides humans feel pain and fear death. Vegans empathize with living creatures and they also understand that humans don't need to eat meat, wear leather, or drink milk to survive. Animals on a modern factory farm lead lives of unimaginable suffering and die cruel deaths before ending up on the dinner table.
Intense competition drives farmers to value efficiency over natural desires.
Animals are squeezed into ever smaller living quarters, even as new biotechnology is used to make animals grow bigger and produce more meat, milk or eggs. Lowering the cost per unit is the overriding goal. Pumped up with hormones and drugs, dairy cows spend a few years in a concrete stall or filthy feed lot before they dry up and are sent to slaughter. Most calves born to dairy cows are quickly separated from their mothers, confined in tiny pens, and then killed for veal after only a few months of life. Chickens are crammed together in tiny cages and have their breaks clipped to prevent them from self-mutilating due to stress.