It screeches, yelps or cries. There is no doubt that some animals, including pigs and cows, even suffer emotionally and psychologically as well. Since the capacity for suffering is well developed in animals, they deserve to be treated morally and ethically. Meat eating causes unnecessary suffering and death to sentient beings. It destroyd wildlife habitats by converting forests to grain and crop lands.
Water is a precious commodity that is wasted by the meat industry.
Live stock production uses more than half of all water consumed in the United States. In Nebraska , over 100,000 pounds of grease, carcass dressing, intestinal waste, paunch manure, and fecal matter from slaughterhouses enter the sewage system daily. These wastes are 10 to several hundred times more highly concentrated than raw domestic sewage . The rainforests are rapidly being destroyed. Fastfood hamburger chains import cheap beef from countries who cut down rainforests and graze cattle on the land.