02/14/2018
Look at that beautiful planet!
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Propelling us into the depths of space.
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Void of any specific destination or direction, but completely sufficient in its entirety.
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Filled with beautiful landscapes: majestic mountains, wondrous deserts, tranquil beaches and sentimental pastures.
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On this planet; everyone you have ever known, loved, admired, or befriended.
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On this planet; every beautiful tree and grass blade, every slimy insect and cuddly animal.
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Yet, if we look a little closer, we begin to see how one animal has evolved to exert its power and control over the environment and animals around them. We would find countless sentient beings on this planet being denied their most basic right; freedom.
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If we could see what happens while this beautiful planet makes one revolution around its sun, we would find 70 billion land animals slaughtered, to serve as food for the humans living here.
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If we could see through the slaughterhouse walls, we would find 98% of those animals came from factory farms - a tool created for the industrialization of products, but no place for any creature capable of feeling pain and suffering.
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Not to mention the trillions of fish and sea creatures dragged up from the bottoms of our vibrantly blue oceans to drown in the air we breathe, leaving these immense seas of blue not so vibrant or lively anymore, but rather a trash can for our collective waste.
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Despite our relative size, each of us has a unique opportunity to speak up 3 times a day for those animals and this planet: To challenge our beliefs about nutrition, to eat healthier and more sustainably.
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That’s what we at Vegan Bacon are here to do.
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“One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.