references: why vegan

Farmed Animals

[1] “U.S. Animal Death Statistics (Farmed Animals).” Faunalytics. https://faunalytics.org/u-s-animal-death-statistics-farmed-animals/#. November 13, 2007.

[2] “Chickens Raised for ‘Meat’.” Food Empowerment Project. https://foodispower.org/chickens-raised-for-meat/

[3] “Non-Ambulatory Animals.” Animals’ Angels Investigations & Advocacy. http://www.animalsangels.org/issues/non-ambulatory-animals

[4] “Age of Animals Slaughtered.” Aussie Farms Repository. https://www.aussiefarms.org.au/kb/48-age-animals-slaughtered

[5] “Thinking Pigs: A Comparative Review of Cognition, Emotion, and Personality in Sus domesticus.” Marino, Lori, and Colvin, Christina M. International Journal of Comparative Psychology. https://animalstudiesrepository.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=acwp_asie . 2015.

[6] “Arithmetic in Newborn Chicks.” Rugani, Rosa, et al. The Royal Society Publishing Proceedings B. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2690459/. July 7, 2009.

[7] “On Cooperation in Sticklebacks.” Milinski, Manfred. Animal Behaviour. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347205801897?via%3Dihub . December 1990.

the environment

[1] "Livestock’s Long Shadow." Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM. 2006.

[2] "Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change are…cows, pigs, chickens?" Goodland, Robert and Anhang, Jeff. World Watch. http://templatelab.com/livestock-and-climate-change/. November/December 2009.

[3] "How Eating Meat Hurts Wildlife and the Planet." Take Extinction Off Your Plate, a project of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Population and Sustainability program. takeextinctionoffyourplate.com/meat_and_wildlife.html. 2014.

[4] "The story of soy." WWF Global. https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/the-story-of-soy

[5] "Beef Cattle." Union of Concerned Scientists  ucsusa.org/global-warming/stop-deforestation/drivers-of-deforestation-2016-beef-cattle

[6] "Deforestation and Climate Change." Dean, Annika. Climate Council. https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/deforestation/. August 21, 2019.

[7] "What's Driving Deforestation?" Union of Concerned Scientists. ucsusa.org/global-warming/stop-deforestation/whats-driving-deforestation.

[8] “The Green, Blue and Grey Water Footprint of Farm Animals and Animal Products.” Mekonnen, M.M. and Hoekstra, A.Y. UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. https://waterfootprint.org/media/downloads/Report-48-WaterFootprint-AnimalProducts-Vol1_1.pdf. December 2010.

[9] ​"The Facts." A.U.M. Films & Media. cowspiracy.com/facts/.

[10] Truth or Drought: Making the connection between animal-based diets & increasing water scarcity. truthordrought.com.

[11] "U.S. Drought or: How We Learned to Stop Eating Meat & Live Vegan." Vegan Publishers. veganpublishers.com/u-s-drought-or-how-we-learned-to-stop-eating-meat-live-vegan/. July 2, 2015.

[12] "Veganism is Environmentalism." The Sustainability Institute at Molloy College. https://www.molloy.edu/Documents/cowspiracy_fact_check_flier.pdf.

[13] “Risk Assessment Evaluation for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations.” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – Office of Research and Development. http://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPURL.cgi?Dockey=901V0100.txt. 2004.

[14] "What's the Role of Factory Farming in Ocean Degradation?" Mission Blue, an initiative of the Sylvia Earle Alliance (S.E.A.). mission-blue.org/2015/02/whats-the-role-of-mass-animal-agriculture-in-ocean-degradation/. February 12, 2015.

[15] "Cesspools of Shame: How Factory Farm Lagoons and Sprayfields Threaten Environmental and Public Health." Marks, Robbin. Natural Resources Defense Council and the Clean Water Network. nrdc.org/resources/cesspools-shame-how-factory-farm-lagoons-and-sprayfields-threaten-environmental-and-public. July 2001.

[16] “Soy.” WWF Global. https://www.worldwildlife.org/industries/soy

[17] "Frequently Asked Questions." Take Extinction Off Your Plate, a project of the Center for Biological Diversity. takeextinctionoffyourplate.com/faq.html

wildlife

[1] "12 Important Reasons to Go Vegan Today." Free from Harm. freefromharm.org/why-vegan/. February 28, 2014.

[2] "Fish Exploited for Food Suffer Like Mammals and Birds." Free from Harm. freefromharm.org/fish-exploited-for-food-suffer-like-mammals-and-birds/. March 3, 2014.

[3] "How Eating Meat Hurts Wildlife and the Planet." Take Extinction Off Your Plate, a project of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Population and Sustainability program. takeextinctionoffyourplate.com/meat_and_wildlife.html. 2014.

[4] "The story of soy." WWF Global. https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/the-story-of-soy

[5] "Beef Cattle." Union of Concerned Scientists. ucsusa.org/global-warming/stop-deforestation/drivers-of-deforestation-2016-beef-cattle

[6] "A Deadly Program." Take Extinction Off Your Plate, a project of the Center for Biological Diversity. takeextinctionoffyourplate.com/wildlife_services/.

[7] "Targeting Wildlife Services." Center for Biological Diversity. biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/wildlife_services/.

[8] "USDA's War on Wildlife, The." Predator Defense. predatordefense.org/USDA.htm

[9] "Frequently Asked Questions." Take Extinction Off Your Plate, a project of the Center for Biological Diversity. takeextinctionoffyourplate.com/faq.html

Human Welfare

[1] “The Industrialization of Agriculture and Environmental Racism: A Deadly Combination Affecting Neighborhoods and the Dinner Table,” Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. https://www.iatp.org/sites/default/files/Industrialization_of_Agriculture_and_Environme.htm. July 30, 1997.**

[2] “Slaughterhouse Workers.” Food Empowerment Project. https://foodispower.org/human-labor-slavery/slaughterhouse-workers/

[3] “Blood, Sweat and Fear: Workers’ Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants.” A Human Rights Watch report. https://www.hrw.org/reports/2005/usa0105/. 2005.**

[4] “Lives on the Line: The Human Cost of Cheap Chicken.” Oxfam Research Report. https://s3.amazonaws.com/oxfam-us/www/static/media/files/Lives_on_the_Line_Full_Report_Final.pdf. 2015.

[5] “A Slaughterhouse Nightmare: Psychological Harm Suffered by Slaughterhouse Employees and the Possibility of Redress through Legal Reform.” Dillard, Jennifer. Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, Forthcoming. https://ssrn.com/abstract=1016401. 2007.**

[6] “Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress: The Psychological Consequences of Killing.” MacNair, Rachel M. Greenwood Publishing. 2002.

[7] “Lowering Cholesterol With a Plant-Based Diet.” Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. https://www.pcrm.org/good-nutrition/nutrition-information/lowering-cholesterol-with-a-plant-based-diet

[8] “Eat wholegrains, vegetables, fruit & beans.” World Cancer Research Fund. https://www.wcrf.org/dietandcancer/recommendations/wholegrains-veg-fruit-beans

[9] “The Genetics of Cancer.” National Cancer Institute. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/genetics

[10] “Cancer and diet: What’s the connection?” Harvard Health Publishing. https://www.health.harvard.edu/cancer/cancer-and-diet-whats-the-connection. September 2016.

[11] “Protein Intake & IGF-1 Production.” Greger, Michael. NutritionFacts.org. https://nutritionfacts.org/video/protein-intake-and-igf-1-production/. October 1, 2012.

[12] “Q&A on the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red meat and processed meat.” World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/. October 2015.

[13] “Dairy cattle serum and milk factors contributing to the risk of colon and breast cancers.” Hausen, Harold zur and Villiers, Ethel-Michele. International Journal of Cancer. February 3, 2015.

[14] “Heart Disease Facts.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm

[15] “A way to reverse CAD?” Esselstyn Jr., Caldwell B. The Journal of Family Practice. https://dresselstyn.com/JFP_06307_Article1.pdf. July 2014.

[16] “What Causes Insulin Resistance?” Greger, Michael. NutritionFacts.org. https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-causes-insulin-resistance/. January 6, 2017.

[17] “Diabetes".” Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. https://www.pcrm.org/health-topics/diabetes

[18] “Detection of Pathogenic Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus from Cattle and Pigs Slaughtered in Abattoirs in Vhembe District, South Africa.” Tanih, Nicoline F., et al. The Scientific World Journal. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4354961/ February 24, 2015.

[19] “Yersinia enterocolitica (Yersiniosis).” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/yersinia/faq.html

[20] “Burden of Foodborne Illness: Findings.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/2011-foodborne-estimates.html

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