"Here's to the crazy ones.
The Misfits.
The Rebels.
The Troublemakers.
The one's who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules,
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them,
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
And while some mey see them as crazy,
We see Genius.
Because the people crazy enough
To think they can change the world
Are The Ones Who Do. " Jack Kerouac




SPEAK politial - The Animal Rights Party

www.speakpoliticalparty.org

P.O. Box 259, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA7 9DJ 0844-800-9031

The truck carrying this cow was unloaded at Walton Stockyards in Kentucky one September morning. After the other animals were removed from the truck, she was left behind, unable to move. Stockyard workers used customary electric prods in her ear to try to get her out of the truck, then they beat her and kicked her in the face, ribs, and back, but she still didn’t move. They tied a rope around her neck, tied the other end to a post in the ground, and drove the truck away. The cow was dragged along the floor of the truck and fell to the ground, breaking both her hind legs and her pelvis in the process. She remained this way until 7:30 that evening.

For the first three hours, she lay in the hot sun crying out. Periodically, when she urinated or defecated, she used her front legs to drag herself along the gravel roadway to a clean spot. She also tried to crawl to a shaded area, but she was unable to move far enough. Altogether, she only managed to crawl between 13 and 14 yards. The stockyard employees wouldn’t allow her any drinking water; the only water she received was given to her by Jessie Pierce, a local animal rights activist. After she was contacted by a woman who witnessed the incident, Jessie arrived at noon. Stockyard workers did not cooperate to help her, so she called the Kenton County police. A police officer arrived but was instructed by his superiors to do nothing; he left at 1 p.m. The stockyard operator informed Jessie that he had permission from the insurance company to kill the cow but wouldn’t do it until Jessie left. Although doubtful that he would keep his word, Jessie left at 3. She returned at 4:30 and found the stockyard deserted. Three dogs were attacking the cow, who was still alive. She had suffered a number of bite wounds, and her drinking water had been removed. Jessie contacted the state police. Four officers arrived at 5:30. State trooper Jan Wuchner wanted to shoot the cow but was told that a veterinarian should kill her. The facility’s two veterinarians would not euthanize her; they claimed that in order to preserve the value of the meat, the cow could not be destroyed. A butcher eventually arrived at 7:30 and shot the cow. Her body was purchased for $307.50.

When the stockyard operator was questioned by a reporter from The Kentucky Post, he stated, “We didn't do a damned thing to it,” and referred to the attention given to the cow by humane workers and police as “bullcrap.” He laughed throughout the interview, saying that there was nothing wrong with the way that the cow was treated.

Sadly, this is not an isolated case. Although this incident occured in the US, it is not unusual in the UK. Each year thousands of cows, pigs and chickens arrive at the slaughter house to sick or injured to walk as a result of a lifetime of abuse. The animal does not recieve medical attention as it is costly and treatments such a anasthetic can "damage the meat". Sad as it is, as long as the animal makes it to slaughter it is still profitable.
The meat industry is a cruel and greedy one where the hunger for money truly exceeds the welfare of the animals.
By buying meat you are supporting this cruelty and you too have blood on your hands. help end the cruelty.
choose life,
go vegan.

Saving Animals
Disease, dirt and crowding, antibiotics and chemical growth enhancers - that's the five month life of most pigs.
24 per cent of dairy cows are pregnant when slaughtered - many nearing full term.
Calves are taken from their mothers a day or two after birth. Males are usually killed.
75 per cent of all piglets have their teeth crushed and tails cut off without anesthetics.
Up to one fifth of chickens may be fully conscious when they enter the scalding tank to loosen their feathers.
Broiler sheds may contain up to 50,000 birds - each one allowed a space the size of a telephone directory.
Nearly all 850 million UK chickens are fed antibiotics daily. 72 million die from disease
Four-fifths of broiler chickens (killed for meat) have broken bones and deformed feet, legs and other bone deformities.
80 per cent of all eggs come from battery hens - kept five to a cage no bigger
than a microwave oven.
25 per cent of turkeys are in chronic pain because of swollen joints - 70 per cent of big birds.
Most ducks are factory farmed in crowded sheds. they never see daylight or swim in water.
Millions of calves, lambs and pigs are conscious when their throats are cut.
20 per cent of lambs die from cold, disease and starvation.


Saving yourself
Vegetarians are less likely to suffer strokes caused by coronary artery disease.
Vegetarian diets offer disease protection because of lower saturated fat, cholesterol and animal protein and higher folates, antioxidant vitamins and plant nutrients.
Vegetarians have lower rates of obesity, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, large bowel disorders, cancers and gallstones.
Vegetarians often live longer and suffer less from several chronic diseases
New research suggest that dementia may be linked to a BSE-like 'prion' found in some meat.
Vegetarians have half to three-quarters the risk of dying of heart disease compared to non-vegetarians.
Vegetarians have a much lower incidence of caesarean section.
95 per cent of all food poisoning comes from meat and animal products.
Cancer rates among vegetarians are 25-50 per cent less than non-vegetarians.
Diabetes is much less likely to be a cause of death in vegetarians
Hypertension (high blood pressure) in vegetarians is one third to one half that of meat eaters
Vegetarian diets have been successful in arresting and reversing severe coronary artery disease

Saving people
35 per cent of the world's people can be fed on a meat-based diet. A plant diet could feed everyone - then plus some.
It takes about 10kg of good quality plant protein - such as wheat and soya - to produce 1kg of meat protein.
The amount of veg protein fed to the US beef herd would feed almost the entire populations of India and China -
two billion people!
90 per cent of the UK's animal feed protein concentrates come from poor countries - often those where children die from starvation.
Amount of grain needed to end extreme hunger - 40 million tonnes. Amount of grain fed to animals in the West - 540 million tonnes.


Saving the planet
More than 70 per cent of all agricultural land in Britain is used to feed animals.
Animal faeces is a major cause of acid rain - in Holland and Belgium, the main cause.
Deserts spread every year - by an area the size of England and Scotland. Livestock grazing is the main cause.
Rain forests are still being felled to graze hamburger cattle. Going vegan saves one acre of forest every year.
On irrigated land, 1lb of vegetables uses 25 gallons. 1lb of beef uses 5,214 gallons.
Farmed animals rank second in causing global warming. Reason - methane from prolific farting and belching
very year in Britain, one billion gallons of pesticides are used - 200 chemicals, 50 suspected of causing cancer.
If Britain went vegetarian, less than half the farm land would be needed - vegan, less than a quarter.

all these statements are fact.

just proof a vegan would benefit everyone.