They use more water to produce less nutritious food. The pesticides kill wild life, upset the balance of nature and often make the labourers seriously ill. Compassionate living requires using, as far as possible, crops grown locally by vegan-organic methods that exploit neither humans or other animals and benefit the environment. Money worship, debilitating self-indulgence and economic growth based on unnecessary industrialism are corrupting human nature and destroying the life support systems of the planet. Forest destruction, soil erosion, pollution of air, soil and water, climate disruption, ozone layer depletion, genetic interference and the ever present danger of nuclear explosions are threatening all life on the planet.
Few people realise that in modern dairy systems cows are robbed of their calves soon after birth.
Most cows have strong maternal instincts and they cry and search for their babies for days. Some calves are slaughtered at once, others are reared for veal, imprisoned in closely confined conditions. Calves are naturally active, playful creatures. Once people justifiably believed that animal products were necessary for human health, but now it has been demonstrated through fifty years and more of vegan living that this is not true. Much scientific research has shown that a well balanced vegan diet is not only adequate but in some ways superior to an omnivorous one.