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The EU is trying to ban vegan products from using words like "burger" and "steak" after pressure from the billionaire animal agriculture industry. Meat eaters, veggies, vegans - everyone should be against this. Companies shouldn't be allowed to use the law against their

Hasan Piker abuses his dog with an electric shock collar. The meat industry electric shocks or even gasses animals, before someone slits their throat. Hasan hurts his dog for his own pleasure. People eat meat for their own pleasure. Both support unnecessary animal cruelty.

In wealthy nations, most of us aren't eating animals to survive. We do it because of habit, taste and convenience. We aren't hurting animals for survival, we're doing it for pleasure, for preference.

Many people can’t stomach watching how animals are killed for food. But closing our eyes doesn’t make it any less violent, it just makes it easier to ignore. We shouldn't pay people to do these unspeakable things to animals in our name, on our behalf.

People say eating animals is tradition. But so were many other things we used to do to each other. We don’t defend cruelty because it’s old, we stop it when we realise it’s wrong. Surely we can agree that hurting animals for pleasure is wrong?

When animals are slaughtered, they fight, scream and try to escape. They don’t “give” their lives, death is forced on them.

People say animals are “raised for food.” The reality is they’re bred into a system designed to kill them young. It's a conveyor belt from birth to slaughter. Most animals are killed at between 7 weeks and 2 years old.

We’d call the police if someone stabbed a cat for dinner. But pigs, who feel the same fear and pain, are stabbed by the billions for pork. No animal wants to be slaughtered for our taste buds, not a cat, not a pig.

I wasn’t born vegan, I learned it. The day I met a cow who leaned her head into my chest like a dog, it got a lot harder to pretend she was just a product.

Strength isn’t how much you can take from the weak, it’s how much you refuse to take. In a world where it's easy to use animals for food, be strong. Leave them off your plate.

If hurting animals for fun is cruelty, why is hurting them for flavour seen as culture? It doesn’t become ethical just because we gave it a recipe.

Did you notice how meat ads never show the animal's death? They show happy farms, green pastures, smiling cartoon animals... but never the knife, the screaming, the fear. They hide the truth to keep people buying.

Halal and Kosher killing shouldn't be allowed in countries that have strict animal welfare laws. What's the point of having laws to protect animals if they aren't enforced? Why are we allowing something that's legally defined as animal cruelty in many countries?

Influencers get a lot of attention by calling vegans weak, soyboys etc. But a vegan man just won the Natural World's Strongest Man, and a vegan woman just won the European Strongman Games.

Explain bacon to a 7 year old, without jokes or soft words. Tell them a pig was forced into a gas chamber, screamed in agony, then was cut into pieces. Watch their face. Kids don't need a lecture to know this is wrong, adults should know better.

As a vegan, the most common thing people tell me is, "meat tastes good". I know. Most vegans ate meat before. I changed because I respect animals, not because I didn't like eating animal products.

Male chickens can’t lay eggs, so the egg industry grinds them up alive or suffocates them on their first day of life. Their sisters are used for eggs until they're less profitable, then they kill them too. That’s the hidden cost of eggs.

“Free-range.” “Organic.” “Ethically raised.” No label changes the ending. Animals still fight, panic, and die fighting for their lives. Humane labels aren’t for them, they’re for us, so we can feel better about funding the knife that kills them.