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Please be vegetarian During Christmas too, isn’t just good for the animals, the environment and your own health and wellbeing, it’s also a fantastic opportunity to try delicious new foods, even at Christmas.

Animals feel pain, hunger, thirst, heat, cold, fear and anger. They are curious, affectionate, playful and outgoing. Their capacity to experience emotions remains
whether they are kept as pets or farmed for meat. Turkeys ‘talk’ to each other.

They have well-developed vocabularies, with twenty distinct vocalisations, and also recognise one another by their voices and head characteristics. Also, when piglets live with humans they quickly learn their own names and follow simple voice commands, just like dogs..

Turkeys :
This Christmas around 10 million turkeys will be slaughtered in the UK.
Around 17 million turkeys are slaughtered
in the UK each year, about 10 million of
them just for Christmas. 90% are kept in
windowless sheds with as many as 25,000

other birds and many young turkeys die before they can learn to reach food and water points. Wild turkeys naturally live for around
10 years. Farmed turkeys are normally
slaughtered between 9 and 24 weeks
old.

These young birds are dragged through electrically charged water which is supposed to render them unconscious
before their necks are cut. At Christmas,
‘Seasonal Slaughterhouses’ are also used
and many turkeys will be killed by having
their necks dislocated, even though

studies show that this does not usually kill them instantly.

Geese :
Around 15 million geese & ducks were killed in the UK for their meat, fat & Feathers. Who was it that decided we all needed
to make roast potatoes with goose fat?
A few celebrity chefs make a fuss about it

and all of a sudden people are bringing yet another dead animal to the table, instead of making wonderfully tasty roasties with vegetable oils.

And many geese suffer additional pain and distress because they are killed in facilities designed to handle much smaller birds.

Pigs :
Nearly 10 million pigs were slaughtered in
the UK and over 70% were closely
confined indoors for their entire lives.
Sows (female pigs) produce around 40 to
70 piglets before they become exhausted
and are slaughtered (aged three to five
years) for sausages,

pork pies and other
low-quality products.
Piglets living in overcrowded, poorly lit
pens with no bedding can become bored
and aggressive (can you blame them?).
The farmer’s solution is to clip their teeth
and dock their tails and there’s no legal
requirement to use a vet

if it is done in the first few days after birth.

Not just the animals People buy more, eat more and create more waste at Christmas. What we choose to eat is one of the biggest factors in the personal impact we have on the environment and a vegetarian diet uses less land, water

and energy than one based on meat.
Statistics show that vegetarians are less
likely than meat eaters to suffer from
diabetes, heart disease and some other
medical conditions.Vegetarians are less
likely to be obese, their blood pressure
is lower on average and they also

tend
to have a lower body mass index (BMI).