And meat producers are the biggest polluters of water. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of meat. If you eat meat, you are consuming hormones that were fed to the animals. No one knows what effect those hormones will have on your health. In some parts of the world, as many as one on four hamburgers contain growth hormones that were originally given to cattle.
Some farmers use tranquillisers to keep animals calm.
Other routinely use antibiotics to starve off infection. When you eat meat you are eating those drugs. Animals suffer from pain and fear just as much as you do. How would you like to spend your last hours locked in a truck, packed into a cage with hundreds of other terrified animal and then cruelly pushed into a blood soaked death chamber. Anyone who eats meat condones and supports the way animals are treated.