Next week is world vegetarian week (May 19-25)

so take the seven day pledge and become vegetarian for a week.

Peta’s List of 30 Reasons to go Vegetarian

1. Because heart disease begins in Childhood
2. Because a vegan diet reverses heart disease
3. Because eating meat and dairy makes you fat
4. Because you shouldn’t have to lie to your kids about the food you eat
5. Because in every package of chicken there’s a little poop
6. Because meat is filthy and bloody
7. Because the grain used to feed animals could be used to feed starving children
8. Because more than half of all water used in the U.S. is used to raise animals for food
9. Because you can’t eat meat and call yourself an environmentalist
10. Because they’re defenseless
11. Because when animals feel pain, they scream, too
12. Because they don’t want to die
13. Because they feel fear.
14. because no matter how you slice it, it’s still flesh
15. Because commerce is no excuse for murder
16. Because even prisons aren’t this crowded
17. Because it isn’t fair
18. Because no living creature wants to see her family slaughtered
19. Because eating meat and dairy causes impotence
20. Because you wouldn’t eat your dog
21. Because mad cow disease is in the U.S.
22. Because it’s violence that you can stop
23. Because no one should have to kill for a living
24. because it takes a small person to beat a defenseless animal…and an even smaller one to eat one
25. Because no animal deserves to die for your taste buds
26. Because this is not what wings are for
27. Because everyone wants to be free
28. Because eating fish doesn’t make you a vegetarian
29. Because might doesn’t make right
30. Because you know this is wrong.