If you consider the obvious facts, you are almost paralyzed by the malice, ignorance, stupidity and selfishness of mankind. I feel unbearable pain and endless compassion for the most vulnerable beings which are tortured and killed by the crimes of mankind: Starving children and cruelly tortured animals. Every day I vacillate between anger, sadness and helplessness when I am confronted with these daily crimes. But I don’t want to look away like most people who are not interested in the suffering behind the walls of factory farms and slaughterhouses. I abhor the evil deeds and activities which make about 40,000 children die of hunger and malnutrition every day because the plant food is fed to the suffering animals in order to obtain meat, milk and eggs. These animal products are guzzled by the people who develop the typical diseases caused by animal products. As the pinnacle of the moral debasement the “health industry” conducts cruel animal testings (which are almost always useless) in order to test treatments and medications for these diseases.

I agree totally with Joaquin Phoenix when he described crimes at the end of the documentary "Earthlings": “The systematic torture and killing of sentient beings show us what is the lowest point of debasement mankind can reach." Based on the testimony of the Jewish Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, I deeply know that people’s treatment of their fellow creatures makes mockery of all their ideals and of the whole alleged "humanism".

A glimmer of hope is the outstanding response to the first editions of the Vegan brochure and the incredible success stories of people who have changed to veganism. This was made possible by the many wonderful people who have distributed such a great amount of these brochures. Go vegan. It's easy. You just change habits. It is the most effective method to make the most important contribution to climate, environment, animals, human beings, and to contribute to your own health by peaceful means.

Dr. Ernst Walter Henrich