Sono 2 miliardi e mezzo, solo nel Belpaese, gli animali uccisi ogni anno per l’industria alimentare, 8 milioni al giorno, 90 ogni secondo. Un eccidio di immani proporzioni, il più delle volte ignorato dal grande pubblico, che si consuma nei mattatoi di tutto il mondo ai ritmi incessanti e frenetici della filiera industriale. Ritmi che vanificano qualsiasi pretesa di “macellazione umanitaria” sbandierata dai magnati della produzione della carne. Il perché è facile da capire: è semplicemente impossibile, sostiene il popolo veg, uccidere 90 animali al secondo e al contempo garantire loro una morte indolore. Ma sul banco degli imputati, gli animalisti e antispecisti italiani e stranieri mettono l’intera sistema dell’allevamento intensivo. La macellazione, dicono, è solo l’epilogo drammatico di un processo più lungo e altrettanto doloroso, that sees life and the dignity of every sentient being sacrificed to the logic of profit and a breach of the palate of the consumer. Thus, pigs, chickens, cows and other farm animals - in spite of their intelligence, their social needs, their emotional life and especially their ability to feel pleasure and pain - are treated as mere instruments of production, forced to undergo mutilation of any kind, bombarded with hormones and antibiotics, imprisoned in cramped, dirty and overcrowded, with all that implies in terms of health and well-being.
Living hallucinating that also have an impact on human health. It is no coincidence, in fact, that the diseases of our time (mad cow disease, H5N1, H1N1) have animal origin, nor is it a mystery that the increase of cardiovascular diseases in the West, is linked to excessive protein intake in our diet. And the same goes for cancer: many scientific studies have shown that vegetarians in the probability of getting cancer are 60% lower than the average population, and that the life expectancy of a vegetarian are more than six years compared to an individual omnivorous. It 'also because of studies like these eminent persons of Italian and international scientific community and scientific organizations often recommend the adoption of una dieta vegetariana: è il caso del noto oncologo italiano Umberto Veronesi, dell’American Dietetic Association o dei Dietitans of Canada.
Ma la questione “carne” tocca anche altri aspetti, i quali si riconnettono a problemi all’ordine del giorno nel mondo globalizzato, come la fame nel mondo e l’inquinamento. E’ soprattutto a causa della cultura della carne, denuncia il popolo veg, che si sta consumando quello che l’economista e filosofo Jeremy Rifkin ha definito senza mezzi termini un “ecocidio”. E, in effetti, i dati a nostra disposizione parlano chiaro: il metano emesso dai ruminanti degli allevamenti intensivi è fra i primi responsabili dell’emissione di gas serra, collocandosi even before the whole transport system worldwide (FAO data at 18% of gas emitted by cows compared with 13% delivered by aircraft, cars, trucks, etc.).. As more farms are among the main culprits of energy consumption and water: a culture of waste that sees the use of 25 calories of fossil fuel to produce one calorie of animal protein, compared to 2.2 calories of fossil fuel sufficient to produce one calorie vegetable. As regards the consumption of water, then, are well known in research that shows how to produce a kilo of meat is necessary to use a quantity of water equal to that consumed in a year by a Westerner. And the list of environmental damage could continue with the pollution of waterways from manure pollution, deforestation to make way for pastures, due to the depletion of marine fisheries (the so-called overfishing), and everything that is related to maintenance, transport and slaughter of farm animals.
There is, finally, the question of the use of food resources of the planet and world hunger. With a world population that touches nearly seven billion people, an omnivorous diet is the worst possible ways of life. If all of Earth's inhabitants wanted to eat as you usually fed a western city, say animal rights activists and environmentalists, would be needed more than three planets like ours. Today, to meet the global demand for meat, used the two-thirds of the cultivable area. With 850 million people chronically undernourished (FAO data), the culture of meat takes away 90% of the soybean crop and about 50% of global wheat. A waste that goes against all common sense and against any serious policy of global justice. Hope
animals and Isa who joined the International Day for the Abolition of Meat is that we start to think seriously about these factors, and opt for what they think the most useful and ethical choice: l ' adoption of a vegetarian or vegan diet. That, said one day as Leonardo da Vinci, who was also a vegetarian, the killing of any sentient being to become a taboo, and reaches a time "when we judge the killing of any animal as that of a man."
Eugenio Leucci
"In aid of the hundreds of millions of animals are raised and killed each year to become a" fashion ", was organized a defense that aims to" open their eyes "to the many convinced that the fur around in hoods and cuffs instead grow on trees ... We do 
