DID YOU KNOW?

1 That greyhound racing is a cruel ‘sport’ in which dogs suffer from injured toes, torn muscles etc. Once their racing days are over, thousands are put to death. They may be shot, poisoned or drowned to avoid the veterinary cost of ‘putting them to sleep’. Others are abandoned or shipped out to Spain for racing, hunting or coursing.

2 That 35 million pheasants, partridges and ducks are produced in cruel battery conditions in the UK. They are then shot by those who think it is great fun and a ‘sport’.

3 That horse racing is a cruel sport. More than 370 animals die on UK tracks every year. Thousands of horses are discarded at the end of unsuccessful careers and many suffer long term injuries. The use of the whip to make the horse run faster should be banned immediately!

4 That thousands of sea birds die every year when they dive for the bait which is planted to catch tuna. The bait is planted with hooks and the birds swallow the bait with the hook and are pulled under water and drown.

5 That rich dietary sources of omega 3 fatty acids are mustard, flaxseed (linseed) and rapeseed oil, walnuts and leafy green vegetables.

6 That 20 million turkeys and 20 million ducks are reared and slaughtered in the UK every year. All these birds suffer the most inhumane conditions.

7 That it takes 3 kilos of grain to produce one kilo of eggs.

8 That it takes 180 litres of water for a battery hen to produce an egg - a gross waste when poor people have only 10 litres of water a day.

9 That 75% of land in the European Union is used to grow animal feed rather than food for human beings.

10 That current levels of greenhouse gases, carbon monoxide and methane, in the atmosphere are higher now than at any time in the last 650,000 years.

11 That by 2020 71% of deaths from heart disease are expected to occur in developing countries. Excessive meat consumption will be one of the main causes of this epidemic.

12 That the NHS spends £2.77 billion every year on drugs like cholesterol- lowering Statins.

13 That the NHS spends £15.7 billion every year on treating heart disease and almost 70 million working days are lost due to the disease.

14 That an estimated 300,000 whales, dolphins, porpoises, sharks, endangered turtles and sea-birds die every year from being caught in fishing nets. 15 That a single dairy cow produces 120 pounds of wet manure per day which is equivalent to the waste produced by 20 to 40 people.

15 That a single dairy cow produces 120 pounds of wet manure per day which is equivalent to the waste produced by 20 to 40 people.