acti-veg:

Below is a list of sources for specific facts relating to animal rights, broken down by topic. Most sources are unbiased, but in cases where they’re not they’re either from animal agriculture interest groups themselves or from suitably reliable organisations or publications. I’ll be updating this frequently, so please click on the source for the most recent version of this post. 

Animals as Food

• Cows only produce milk when pregnant and after birthing
• Dairy cows restrained and forcibly impregnated
• Dairy calves taken from their mothers
• Calf seperation causes extreme distress
• Dairy calf mother’s exhibit prolonged depressive states
• Dairy calves killed after birth
• Dairy cows killed when production slows
• 22.1% of female cows sent to slaughter pregnant
  
• Throat slitting as kill method standard industry practice
• Egg hens live 12-18 months
• Hens kept in constant bright light to manipulate cycles
• Poultry have the end of their beaks seared off
• Poultry cannibalising due to overcrowding
• Chickens dragged through electrified pools
• Male chicks ground up alive
• Free range does not mean kept outside
• Free range no requirement for number of birds, space per bird, or slaughter method
• Most piglets castrated without anasthetic
• Most caught fish die from suffocation and stress
• Current demand for animal products can only be met by factory farming
• Illegal in several states to film conditions inside slaughterhouses
  
• Emerging diseases in managed populations of bees could be a significant cause of wild bee decline
• Queen bees artificially inseminated
• Queen bees wings clipped
• Beekeepers using smoke to panic and disorient bees
• Beekeepers burning hives during winter to cut costs
• Managed honey bees compete with wild pollinators and lower the effectiveness of their pollination

Animals as Entertainment

• Only 16 out of 145 reintroduction programs worldwide ever restore animal populations to the wild, most of these not from zoos.
• Surplus zoo animals sold to circuses or roadside attractions
• Surplus zoo animals regularly culled
• Elephant’s lifespan less than half in captivity compared to wild
• Zoo animals exhibit stereotypical stress behaviour
• Zoo animals exhibit depressed states
• Zoo animals exhibit increased aggression
• Average zoo visitor only spends about thirty seconds to two minutes viewing any given exhibit
  
• Studies suggest learning from zoo visits very poor
• Even padded whips do hurt horses
• One horse in every 22 races suffers an injury which prevents them from finishing a race
  
• Official figures from the BRA shows that 811 horses died in race meetings between 2010 and 2013 in Britain alone
  
• Fatal collapse of horses during races common
• 300 out of every 1,000 horses purpose-bred for racing will race- rest will be discarded.
  
• Foals taken from their mothers by racing industry
• Horse-racing Regulatory Authority admits that the industry “doesn’t really know what definitely happens to the horses when they stop racing.”
• 63% of whales who died in captivity before 2014 had been in captivity for fewer than six years
• Repetitive stress behaviour in whales and dolphins in captivity
  
• Aquariums rely on wild-caught animals
• Many fish endangered due to over-collecting by aquariums and pet trade
• Unwanted greyounds sold to university for slaughter and disection
• Unwanted greyhound pups killed or sold to vivisectors

Animals as Clothing

• Most cows slaughtered before two years old
  
• Newborn & unborn calves killed for softest leather
  
• Estimated at least 22.1% of female cows sent to slaughter are pregnant 
  
• 64% of pregnant cows slaughtered in 2nd or 3rd trimester
• Leather production significant environmental impact
• Leather production uses harmful products
• 90% of water used in tanning discharged as poisonous effluent. 
  
• Illness and death linked of workers linked to toxic tanning chemicals
• Most fur sourced from intensive captive farms
• Severe stress endured by captive fur animals
• Fur treated with formaldehyde and chromium linked to cancer
  
• Fur one of the world’s five worst industries for toxic-metal pollution
• Real fur requires 20 times more energy to produce than faux fur
• Sheep castrated and tail cut off without anaesthetic
• Shearers paid per sheep not per hour encourages fast speeds
• Sheep commonly injured during shearing
• Commercial shearing and handling extremely stressful for sheep
• Many sheared sheep die from hypothermia or exposure
• Nearly a million sheep die each year during first 30 days after shearing
  
• Lambs from wool sheep sent to slaughter
• Lambs slaughtered between 2 and 4 months old
• 1kg of silk requires the deaths of approximately 5000 worms.
  

Animal Testing

• Up to 100 million animals are used in experiments per year
• Most animals used in experiment are not protected by the main federal legislation governing animal use in research
•  9 out of 10 drugs that pass animal tests still go on to fail or cause harm in clinical trials on humans
  
• Ability of animal experiments to predict effects on humans as low as 37%
  
• Oncology drugs developed using animal testing have success rate of 5%
• Extrapolated results from studies using tens of millions of animals fail to accurately predict human responses 
  
• Too many variables in animal experiments to gain reliable results
• In 2012 115 million animals in scientific experiments; FDA approved only 35 new treatments
• Testing of one substance alone can involve using up to 800 animals
  
• The US National Research Council has called for the replacement of animal tests
• Allergic reactions, some blood disorders, skin lesions and many central nervous system effects cannot be anticipated by animal testing
  
• Different drugs have radically different effects on different species
• Scientific reports show that variation in drug metabolism between species is the rule rather than the exception
  
• Artificially re-created animal diseases cannot approximate a naturally occurring human disease
  

Environment and Conservation

• Meat consumption driving global species extinction
• UN urges move to meat and dairy-free diet
• UN’s report on environmental impact of animal agriculture
• Animal waste causing ocean dead zones
• A high meat diet produces 2.5 times as many greenhouse gas emissions as a vegan diet, and twice as many as a vegetarian diet 
  
• 60% of global bioversity loss due to meat based diets.
• Beef production linked to deforestation
• Global meat production and consumption continue to rise
• Animal agriculture water use unsustainable
• 1,000 gallons of water produce 1 gallon of milk
  
• 1/3 of planet’s  land surface and 2/3 of available agricultural land used for grazing farmed animals
• Livestock is the world’s largest user of land resources
  
• 2.5 acres of land are used per cow
• Between 65% and 88% of  the deforestation of the Amazon is due to cattle ranching
  
• Leather production uses harmful acids, salts, fungicides, bactericides, chromium, sulphides and sulphates
  
• 100% of water used in tanning discharged as poisonous effluent.
  
• Animal agriculture responsible for 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions
• Emissions for agriculture projected to increase 80% by 2050
  
• 7 million pounds of excrement  produced by animals raised for food in US per minute
  
• Farm with 2,500 dairy cows produces same amount of waste as city of 411,000 people.
• 2.7 trillion marine animals pulled from oceans each yeah
• For every 1 pound of fish caught up to 5 pounds of unintended marine species caught and discarded as by-kill
• US fishing industry produced 2 billion pounds of bycatch per year
  
• 300,000 small whales, dolphins and porpoises caught in nets per year
• 37 pounds of “feeder” fish to produce 1 pound of commercially sold fish
  
• Fishing severely damaging local ecosystems
• Wild bees better pollinators than domestic honey bees
• Domestic honey bees spreading diseases to wild bees
• Domestic honey bees not endangered, many species of wild bees are.
• Thousands of seals being shot to keep salmon industry going

Human Impact of Animal Agriculture

• Eating vegan could save 8.1 million human lives per year
• The impact of industrialised agriculture on world hunger
• Animal agriculture severely effecting local communities
• Human rights abuses rife in slaughterhouses
• Prevlance of PTSD and alcohol abuse in slaughterhouses
• Alcohol abuse prevalent in slaughterhouse workers
• Slaughterhouse workers have high rates of injury
• Many slaughterhouse workers poor immigrants with no other choice
• Workers at animal farms exposed to antibiotic resistant bacteria
  
• Many workers in slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants face real risk of losing limbs
• Animal agriculture industries delay compensation claims from workers and take reprisals against those who file them
  
• Poultry workers denied breaks, forced to wear diapers
• Livestock consume 70% of all grain we produce
• Livestock consume 75% of all soy we produce
• Livestock accounts for 1/5 of all water use
• Nearly 60% of the world’s agricultural land is used for beef production, yet beef accounts for less than 2% of the calories consumed globally
  
• An acre of land can produce 40,000 pounds of potatoes, 50,000 pounds of tomatoes, or 250 pounds of beef.
  
• Water footprint of any animal product larger than water footprint of a wisely chosen crop product with equivalent nutritional value.
• Farmed animals take in more calories than they give out in meat
• 4 billion people globally live on a primarily plant based diet
  
• Animal agriculture heavily subsidised by taxpayer
• Indigenous communities threatened by ranching
• Counties with larger nonwhite populations home to more factory farms
  
• Animal agriculture industries structurally are racist
• Over-fishing threatens the food security of around 200 million people
• Food shortages could force the world to give up meat

Health

• American Dietetic Association on vegan diets
  
• National Health Service on vegan diets
• Academy of Nutrition and Dietitics on vegan diets
  
• US National Library of Medicine on vegan diets
• American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on vegan diets
  
• UN report on impact of meat on health
  
• Physician’s Committee on meat consumption and cancer link
• Red and processed meats linked to mortality
• Eating red meat may shorten lifespan
• World Watch Institute health risks of rise in global meat consumption
• Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in meat
• Vegans have significantly lower risk of early death
• Vegans have substantially lower death rates than meat-eaters
  
• 80% of antibiotics sold in US fed to livestock
• Extensive use of antibiotics in intensive livestock production major cause of the increase in antibiotic-resistant diseases in UK
• Swine flu pandemic linked to factory farming
• Bird flu pandemic linked to factory farming
• Gut bacteria on 97% of retail chicken breasts
• More e-coli deaths caused by poultry than any other commodity

(More resources at Acti-veg.com)

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weavemama:

DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY 

I can back this up. It isn’t only their shelters.

I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.

My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.

Do not give to the Salvation Army.

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