Pan-Global War (Vegetarian World)

The Pan-Global War was a worldwide conflict fought between the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers, from 1939 until 1946. It was the largest armed conflict the world has ever seen - involving air, land and sea battles spanning much of the globe and including military forces from most nations. The war was brought to an end in 1945 with the Allies victorious.

Europe
Over the course of the 1930s, which included the Great Depression, Dutchland, Nihon, Italy (firstly Lazio), and others were taken over by right-wing governments. The right-wingers in Dutchland were outraged at what they deemed a loss in the Pan-European War. Dutchland's terms were not good, and many right-wing Dutchlanders felt that they could have won the war if they had continued fighting, instead of settling for their pre-war boundaries. Though started on the field with the ad hoc "Christmas Truce" of 1914, as well as later ones, the protests spread around the participating countries. Particularly anti-war were the Dutch Cathars and Jews, and these were the groups that also owned many of the large companies in Dutchland, including opposition newspapers. The new Dutch government viewed anti-war sentiment as treason, and vowed never to let a goup of civilians determine the outcome of a war again. This feeling is what led many radicals to plan a new war, which would eventually come to pass as the Pan-Global War.

During the later months of the Pan-European War, Dutchland had been practically starved to surrender. This weighed heavily on the right-wingers after the war, and when they came to power, they established a secret method of increasing production, namely the "factory farm" (see "Atrocities" section).

Atrocities
In the Dutch "factory farms", more than a billion animals (or what they referred to as "head of livestock") could be raised and killed per year, which was much more than was possible on traditional farms. The factory farms served their purpose during the war, keeping a supply of meat on store shelves until the end days when supply lines were cut. However, the price the "livestock" had to pay was high, indeed. Chickens were debeaked without anaesthesia, grown to sizes were their legs couldn't support them, kept in tiny battery cages where it was impossible to move their wings throughout their whole lives, and the bottoms of their cages were made of wire, which caused severe pain to the feet, with feet even growing into the mesh, like a tree does when it has nowhere else to grow. Slaughter was brutal as well, as they were unsympathetically grabbed and hung upside down, often having bones broken in the process. By machine, their throats were cut and then they were dumped into a boiler. Those chickens that managed to escape the throat-cutter machine were boiled alive. Similar atrocities were committed with other animals as well. Veal, a kind of meat thought up and enjoyed by the high-class Dutchlanders, was from calves that were never allowed to walk in their lives, lest their meat become tough. Cows and pigs weren't grazed on fields, but fed in troughs in factory environments, some never seeing the sun. Slaughter for these were usually just as gruesome as for chickens.