Gracie the Vegan

Gracie, a vegan girl, explains why she is a vegan and why you should be one too.

In case you can't understand some of the stuff she's saying, here is the script:

Hi. I'm Gracie and I'm a vegan. I know what you're thinking, "Oh no, not another vegan!" Well, I will tell you why I am one.
I don't want to kill animals. They have feelings too, and I see no difference between eating a cow and eating a dog. Cows, pigs, chickens, and even fish are actually very smart creatures. But most people don't know that, because they are on their plates.
You've probably heard about factory farmed animals, and most people agree that it's very bad for the animals. Nowadays more and more people are choosing free range or "happy meat". But meat is never humane. Terrified animals will still get crammed into trucks and shipped to the slaughter house, where they are shot, chained by their legs, their throats slit and then thrown into scalding hot water, and many animals are completely conscious through the entire process.
"What about dairy and eggs", you ask? Surely you don't hurt animals when you buy free range milk and eggs?
To produce milk, like all mammals, dairy cows need to give birth. The calves are stolen away from their mothers shortly after birth so that humans can drink their milk. Female calves will either be slaughtered for the rennet in their stomachs, an ingredient in cheese, or replace their worn out mothers. Male calves are sold to the veal or beef industries. Cows are very maternal animals, and the separation stresses the mother and calf. Cows can be heard crying for their babies for days.
When their milk production slows, dairy cows are sent to slaughter and sold for cheep meat or pet food. In response to a commonly asked question, "don't you need to milk cows or they suffer?", the answer is no. If you don't milk a cow, the calf would drink the milk, as nature intended.
So what about eggs? In order to have laying hens, you need fertile eggs. Half of these will hatch into unwanted male roosters, who are crushed and ground up to use as chicken meal shortly after struggling out of the egg. When only a few days old, hens are debeaked - a painful process in which a hot blade or laser is used to trim their very sensitive beaks. Hen's beaks are very much like human nails. Imagine how painful it would be if the sensitive part of your finger nail was seared off. All laying hens no matter whether they are organic, free range, cage free, or factory farmed are sent to the slaughter house when they start laying fewer eggs. You can not eat dairy or egg products without killing an animal.
Being vegan is about more than avoiding meat, dairy and eggs. Vegans also do not eat honey or wear leather, wool, silk, or anything that is from an animal. I will explain briefly why we shouldn't use these products.
Honey is made by bees, for bees. Worker bees store honey in the hive for the colony to eat in winter. But instead we take it. Hundreds of bees die trying to protect their honey and trying to sting the beekeepers.
Sheep have wool to protect themselves in winter, and in spring they naturally shed their coats. Just before spring time is when they are sheared. Shearing is not done carefully and sheep often suffer from cuts and bleeding caused by the shearers. When they stop producing as much wool, sheep may be sent to slaughter.
Silk worms are the larvae of moths. The silk comes from their cocoons. People unrap the silk from the cocoons, and the confused creature would most likely be boiled to death in hot water. Only a few caterpillars are allowed to continue their transformation to ensure the continuation of the species. Hundreds of tiny lives are being lost in order to produce silk. One cocoon can't produce much use able silk, so it takes hundreds of the silkworms cocoons to produce just one silk tie.
So make the right choice for animals. Go vegan, and you will save heaps of lives, not to mention that it is healthier for you and better for the environment.

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[ashleebayer]

actually you dont need fertile eggs. a hen will lay just fine without a rooster, i currently have a flock hanging out in my backyard, roosterless. i get plenty perfect eggs. friendly meat.... home grown free ranged animals that are raised on farms, are generally not"thrown into boiling water" we generally respect and love our animals, and slaughter them with respect. sheering sheep are generally handled with care, and it is done so respectfully.

i find what you say just false. RESEARCH

[veggiegirl142]

@ashleebayer Maybe you should look at it from the animal's perspective. Even if you had a good short life, would that make it any more acceptable for someone to "respectfully" murder you? If a child was murdered, the murderer saying that she had a good life and was a happy child, and she was murdered "with respect", is that acceptable?

It's not about *how* they're killed but *that* they're killed.

[Ohkapi]

Thank you Gracie and thank you veggiegirl, you are brilliant and saying truths so people who has compassionate can look up on internet, and learn what they haven't heard of from your video here. Either anyone will become vegan or not, it's their choices. I know people with compassionate hearts and love animals will give themselves less excuses after hearing what Gracie said.

[veggiegirl142]

@wiwarb but who is most of the soya grown for? Not people, but for farm animals. A great amount of food grown that could be fed to people is fed to farm animals instead. Therefore, if we stop farming animals, rainforests will no longer be cut down for their food to be grown on. Because really, the world ALREADY has enough food to feed all the people of the Earth. If we took all the food that we feed to farmed animals and fed it to humans, there would be no more world hunger. Simple as that.

[veggiegirl142]

@Zoticfire Soy milk, almond milk, rice milk, or oat milk :) There are heaps of kinds so find one you like!

[wiwarb]

@veggiegirl142 Please don't eat soya.

the biggest mistake a vegan can make is eating soya,

the rain forest will be cutdown for producing soya,

stay Ital

[Zoticfire]

@3DOBot Why shouldn't she compare us to animals? We're all alive and breath, bleed and breed! Animals just aren't able to speak up for themselves or defend themselves like we can. And since your bringing up health, meat can lead to disease and cancer--check out a little doc called FORKS NOT KNIVES.

[Zoticfire]

@ashleebayer Slaughter house employees are probably numb from killing all day. After a while, I doubt they care how the animal dies. To them it's just another day, another paycheck. So not everyone is "so kind" as you.

[Zoticfire]

@veggiegirl142 what's a good sub for diary?

[Zoticfire]

@ashleebayer no everyone is "so kind" -- slaughter house workers are probably numb from killing all day and don't care how the animal dies after a while, just their paycheck.

[Zoticfire]

@3DOBot Ah why shouldn't she compare us to animals? Lets see, we all breath, bleed and breed! Animals just can speak up for themselves or defend themselves like we can. Plus, Who's proven that we need vitamin B? Also, meat can lead to disease and cancer. And cultures that practice veggie diets don't get ill like Americans do!

[3DOBot]

And did you know that cows cannot make it without us? Don't take my word for it, look it up. You're only looking at a small number of farms PETA brings up. Not ALL treat and kill their animals in wrong manners..