Recently, Mercy For Animals’ Brazil food policy program, Alimentação
Consciente Brasil (Conscious Eating Brazil),
has had major successes that will promote health and sustainability and will have
a big impact on the lives of farmed animals.
Three Brazilian cities, Cuiaba, Varzea Grande, and Sao
Goncalo, all publicly committed to MFA’s food policy program. This initiative
will create 5 million vegan meals a year that would otherwise contain animal
products. This breaks down to around 140,000 plant-based meals each week.
In Varzea Grande and Sao Goncalo, both the second-largest cities
in their states, officials committed to serving entirely plant-based foods one
day a week in city-run public schools. In Cuiaba, the capital and largest city
in Mato Grosso, officials committed to serving entirely plant-based foods one
day a week in both city-run public schools and city-run social assistance
programs.
Once implemented, MFA’s food policy program in these cities
will spare 110,000 animals per year from a lifetime
of suffering at factory farms.
Animals raised and killed for food are just as smart and
sensitive as dogs and cats. But at factory farms, cows, pigs, and chickens are
subjected to unimaginable cruelty, including extreme confinement;
brutal mutilations; and bloody, violent deaths.
See for yourself:
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to a healthy, sustainable, and compassionate vegan diet. Click here to get started!