Go Veg

After studying for a presentation on Animal Rights for my ethics class I decided I am going to be/NEED to be a vegetarian. It's the right thing to do, since animals are treated horribly and abused on factory farms. Also the amount of grain that is used to feed these animals could be used to feed Africa. The farm animals are also heavily contributing to global warming from their carbon emissions (burping/farting). Overall I know I will be a healthier and happier person by respecting nature and the creatures that reside with us. I am really excited :)

Cool quote from philosopher Jeremy Bentham:
"Other animals, which, on account of their interests having been neglected by the insensibility of the ancient jurists, stand degraded into the class of things. ... The day has been, I grieve it to say in many places it is not yet past, in which the greater part of the species, under the denomination of slaves, have been treated ... upon the same footing as ... animals are still. The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may come one day to be recognized, that the number of legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum, are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same fate. What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or perhaps, the faculty for discourse?...the question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being?... The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes... "