This is a really simple and compelling reason to be vegan.

For people to adore their pets and then ignore the rest of the animal kingdom is baffling to me.

We've also been hearing in the news that California has enough water in the reservoirs for only one year. The amount of water used on animals being bred for meat is crazy. Eating a plant based diet goes along way to helping our water crisis too.

Check out Peta's explanation

http://www.peta.org/features/what-peta-really-stands-for/