| What are vegans, and which planet are they from? |
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Vegans don't eat any animal products at all -- no milk, no eggs, no cheese. Most choose not to wear animal products like leather, wool or angora. They are mostly from Saturn and Pluto, and have plans for world domination sometime soon.
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| Why not, those products don't hurt the animals, right?
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| That's 100% correct -- if you believe the fairy tales that large corporations want you to believe. The fact of the matter is that milking cows and egg-laying hens in factory farms have it worst of all, far worse than the miserable but comparatively short lives of "meat" animals. Learn more here. |
| Gimme a break, it helps the cows to milk them. |
| Contrary to popular belief, cows don't just produce milk for kicks. They are mammals, just like human ladies -- they need to get knocked up before their bodies produce milk. In factory farms they are artificialy inseminated to keep them constantly pregnant. And guess what happens at the end of the pregnancy? Little girl calfs are kept to become future milkers. Little boy calfs aren't so useful to the dairy farmer, and dairy breeds aren't great for the meat industries either. So famers came up with a really unpleasant way to raise a new kind meat called veal. Think about it -- when you have a scoop of ice cream, somewhere out there is a veal calf that didn't get to drink that milk. Learn more here. |
| OK, you got me on that milk thing, but you can't tell me chickens don't lay eggs on their own. |
| True, but in nature "layer" hens would not be crammed 8 to a cage with a floor the size of a file drawer, unable to spread their wings or do anything chicken-like. Hens are run through a food-and-light deprivation process for over a week, which forces another laying cycle and increases profits. And like the male dairy calves, male chicken offspring are so useless to the egg industry they are routinely killed a few days old. More info. |
| Yikes, that really sucks. What do you do with the eggs at your farm? |
| They are collected daily and fed to our vegetarian pigs (and doggies) as a protein supplement. When there is a total overabundance, we give them to non-vegan neighbors or friends who do favors for the farm. While we always encourage people to avoid consuming any animal products, that fact is we would much rather have them eat our eggs than buy evil factory-farm eggs at the supermarket! |
| Speaking of pigs, how big are yours? |
| Our biggest boy, Stubby, is about 1100 pounds! Modern pig breeds are designed to hit the slaughter weight of 250 pounds in 6 months, and if they live longer they keep growing. We have them on a special diet to keep their weight down and we keep a careful eye on their hooves and legs. |
| Where do vegans get their protein? |
| Let us answer that question with another question: What is the medical term for the condition of adults who don't eat enough protein?
Give up?
There is no such term. Aside from some very rare conditions that can affect infants or young children, if you are eating enough food to fill your belly you're getting enough protein. You body has the ability to use protein from a wide variety of foods, not just meat and dairy. America has a protein-obessed culture.
That said, a vegan looking to dose up on lots of protein can turn to a variety of beans, nuts and grain-based foods.
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| But kids can't be raised vegan -- I saw a news story about that. |
| Not true, but it is true that you would have to keep an eye on what your vegan kids eat. Learn more here. |
