101 Reasons To Go Vegetarian

Are You Ready to Step Out of the Meatrix?
101 Good
Reasons
to Eat Vegetarian Food

Reason 1:
Stay Healthy

What is the #1 Killer in America?
Heart Disease
Medical News Today, Fighting America's No. 1 Killer: Cardiovascular Disease, http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/41700.php

Cardiovascular Disease Fact Sheet
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161
Half
“Vegetarians have the best diet; they have the lowest rates of coronary heart disease of any group in the country.”
William Castelli, M.D., Director, Framingham Health Study, the longest-running study of diet and heart disease in world medical history
John Robbins, The Food Revolution

What is the #2 Killer in America?
Cancer

How to Reduce Cancer Rate?
More of These:

Apples
Beans
Berries
Brown Rice
Carrots
Cruciferous Veggies
Flax Seeds
Garlic
Ginger
Tomatoes
Turmeric

“Now some people scoff at vegetarians, but they have only 40% of our cancer rate. They outlive us.”
William Castelli, M.D., Director, Framingham Health Study, the longest-running study of diet and heart disease in world medical history
Less of This:
William Castelli, M.D., Director, Framingham Health Study; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Cancer Fact Sheet
250%
300%
1250%
“If you step back and look at the data [on beef and cancer], the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.”
Walter Willett, M.D., Chairman of the Nutrition Department, Harvard School of Public Health

Obesity

An estimated 97 million adults in the United States, 55% of the population, are overweight or obese.
Obesity can lead to including Type 2 diabetes, gallbladder disease, hypertension, coronary artery disease, knee osteoarthritis, gout, colon cancer, low back pain, lack of confidence, depression, etc.
An estimated 300,000 deaths per year may be attributable to obesity.
Individuals who are obese have a 50 to 100% increased risk of premature death from all causes, compared to individuals with a healthy weight.

http://www.organicnutrition.co.uk/articles/the-dangers-of-obesity.htm

Fact Sheet
33-55 Billion
3:1
40 g
3 g
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight_loss

Health & Life Expectancy Fact Sheet
Lower
Lower
Lower
Lower
Lower
Lower
Lower
Higher
Stronger
6 Years
10 Years

Human AnatomyFact Sheet
Time to Digest Vegetarian Food:
Time to Digest Meat:
Human
1-3 Hours
72 Hours
A.D. Andrews, Fit Food for Men

Reason 2:
Healthier for Animals Too!

How we like to perceive farms...

Welcome to Factory Farming
10 Billion Animals are slaughtered each year and a vast majority of which come from Factory Farms.
http://www.mindfully.org/Farm/Factory-Farm-Peter-Rosset.htm

Factory Pigs
97% of U.S. Pigs are raised on factory farms.
These pigs spend their entire lives in cramped, filthy warehouses, under constant stress from the intense confinement and denied sunlight, hay, mud and everything that is natural to them.
Their tails are cut off, some of their teeth are cut off, and the males are castrated without any pain relief.
They spend their entire lives on a tiny slab of filthy concrete or in tiny metal crates where they can't even turn around.
During transport, they travel many miles through all weather extremes—many die of heat exhaustion or arrive frozen to the inside of the truck.
Many are still fully conscious when they are immersed in scalding water for hair removal.
http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/animals.html

Factory Cows
When they are still very young, cows are burned with hot irons, their testicles are ripped out of their scrotums, and their horns are cut or burned off—all without painkillers.
They are sent to massive, muddy feedlots to be fattened for slaughter.
Many cows die in transport on the way to slaughter. In the cold, they sometimes freeze to the side of the truck and workers pry them off with crowbars.
Those who survive are shot in the head with a bolt gun, hung up by their legs, and taken onto the killing floor, where their throats are cut and they are skinned. Some cows remain fully conscious throughout the entire process.
http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming_cows.asp

Factory Chicken & Turkey
The more than 9 billion chickens raised on factory farms each year in the U.S. will never even meet their parents, let alone be raised by them. They will never take dust baths, feel the sun on their backs, breathe fresh air, roost in trees, or build nests.
Chickens spend their entire lives in filthy sheds with tens of thousands of other birds, where intense crowding and confinement lead to outbreaks of disease.
They are bred and drugged to grow so large so quickly that their legs and organs can’t keep up, making heart attacks, organ failure, and crippling leg deformities common.
Many become crippled under their own weight and eventually die because they can’t reach the water nozzles. When they are only 6 or 7 weeks old, they are crammed into cages and trucked to slaughter.
http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming_chickens.asp

Factory Chicken & Turkey
Transportation
Chickens are slammed into small crates and trucked to the slaughterhouse through all weather extremes. Hundreds of millions suffer from broken wings and legs from rough handling, and millions die from the stress of the journey.
Slaughter
At the slaughterhouse, their legs are snapped into shackles, their throats are cut, and they are immersed in scalding hot water to remove their feathers. Most are still conscious when their throats are cut open, and many are literally scalded to death in the feather-removal tanks after missing the throat cutter.

Factory Ducks & Geese
Ducks and geese raised for their flesh spend their entire lives crammed in dirty, dark sheds where they suffer from injury and disease and are deprived of everything that is natural to them.
Ducks and geese raised for foiegras endure the pain of having a pipe shoved down their throats three times daily so that two pounds of grain can be pumped into their stomachs to produce the diseased “fatty liver” that some diners consider a delicacy.
Tiny Victory
The state of California recently passed a law banning foiegras because the production methods are so cruel.
http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming_ducks.asp

Factory Veal
Calves raised for veal are separated from their mothers at birth, confined to dark, tiny crates in which they are chained by the neck to keep them almost completely immobilized so that their flesh stays tender.
The calves are fed a liquid diet that is low in iron and has little nutritive value in order to make their flesh white. This heinous treatment makes the calves ill, and they frequently suffer from anaemia, diarrhea, and pneumonia. Frightened, sick, and alone, they are killed after only a few months of life.
Because of the cramped, filthy conditions in which they are kept, many calves raised for veal are very ill by the time they are loaded onto transport trucks. The short trip from their tiny pens to the transport truck may be the first time that these calves have a chance to walk. Some calves die before they can be taken to the slaughterhouse.
http://www.youcouldsavetheworld.com/index.html

What About Milk?
On factory farms, cows used for their milk will be repeatedly impregnated and separated from their calves until their bodies give out and they are sent to die.
Mother cows can be heard crying out for their calves for days after they are separated at birth.
Dairy cows are drugged and bred to produce unnatural amounts of milk.
Over 80 types of antibiotics are allowed in U.S. cow’s milk.
Substitutes to Milk from Factory Dairy Farms:

Soy Milk
Almond Milk
Rice Milk
OrganicCow’s Milk

What About Eggs?
More than 650,000 Americans are sickened from eating Salmonella-tainted eggs every year.
Birds exploited for their eggs, are crammed together in wire cages where they don’t even have enough room to spread a single wing.
The cages are stacked on top of each other, and the excrement from chickens in the higher cages constantly falls on those below.
The birds have part of their sensitive beaks cut off so that they won’t peck each other as a result of the frustration created by the unnatural confinement.
After their bodies are exhausted and their production drops, they are shipped to slaughter, generally to be turned into chicken soup or cat or dog food because their flesh is too bruised and battered to be used for much else.
Factory farmed eggs only contain 5%of the healthy fatty-acids that were once contained in free range chicken eggs.
What about the males?
Because the male are unable to lay eggs they are ground up alive or tossed into bags to suffocate.

What about Fish?
Farmed Fish:
Aquaculture is a billion-dollar industry and is growing 3 times faster than land-based animal agriculture.
Land-based farms raise thousands of fish in ponds, pools, or concrete tanks. Ocean-based aquafarms are situated close to shorelines, and fish in these farms are packed into net or mesh cages. All fish farms are rife with pollution, disease, and suffering, regardless of their location.
Aquafarms squander resources—it can take 5 pounds of wild-caught fish to produce just 1 pound of farmed fish—and pollute the environment with tons of fish feces, antibiotic-laden fish feed, and diseased fish carcasses.
Fish on aquafarms spend their entire lives in cramped, filthy enclosures, and many suffer from parasitic infections, diseases, and debilitating injuries. Conditions on some farms are so horrendous that 40 percent of the fish may die before farmers can kill and package them for food.
Wild Fish:

They have lost a lot of their nutritional value because of environmental pollution.
They are commonly intoxicated with PCBs, DDT, dioxin, mercury, and other toxic chemicals.
By 2050, there will be virtually nothing left to fish from the sea.
Commercial fishing vessels use dragnets that are miles long and devastate marine life and ocean beds.
For 1 Kg of fish, 12.5 Kg of marine life is hauled up with the fish and discarded.

http://www.fishinghurts.com/fishFarms.asp

What about Family Farms?

From 1967 to 2002, 89% of pig farms in America shut down unable to compete with mega factory farms.
In the U.S., just four companies produce 81% of cows, 73% of sheep, 57% of pigs and 50% of chickens.
Since the 1960s, the demand for meat has tripled while 2 million family farms have shut down.

Free Range Chicken?

According to the US Department of Agriculture, free range chickens are simply those which have access to the outdoors.
The vast majority of chickens sold as free range are often simply given a little more than a window that leads to a tiny outdoor concrete pad covered with excrements, and that's perfectly legal.
Chickens labelled as free-range have nothing to do with organic standards and can very well be non-organic.

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4047
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_farming

What’s in your Meat?
Antibiotics
Steroids
Pesticides
Hormones

Food Borne Illness
Animals that have been standing in yards of feces and urine for long periods of time, have a range of health issues such as cancerous growths, cysts, pustules, and/or are just sick, miserable animals.
Salmonella
E.Coli
Campylobacter
Beef
Chicken
Eggs

What are you feeding your family?
Hey Mom, what’s for dinner?
Can you tell them the truth?
Pig
Hen
Cow
Grilled Cow
Baby Cow
Cadaver

Reason 3:
Healthier for the Planet!

Water Pollution
The livestock business is among the most damaging sectors to the earth’s increasingly scarce water resources, contributing among other things to water pollution from animal wastes, antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and the pesticides used to spray feed crops.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, hog, chicken and cattle waste has polluted 35,000 miles of rivers in the USA and contaminated groundwater.

Water
It took nature millions of years to form the great Ogallala aquifer. This is the largest body of fresh water on Earth, and it lies under the great American grain belt. It is one of the reasons the U.S. Has the world’s largest food supply.
At present, more than 13 trillion gallons of water are taken from Ogallala every year, with the vast majority used to produce beef.
More water is taken from Ogallala for beef production that is used to grow all the fruits, and vegetables in the entire country.
At current rates, it’s only a matter of time before wells go dry in KS, NE, OK, CO, NM and portions of these states become inhabitable. The U.S. Will lose its grain surplus and its ability to provide security for its people.
The same pattern is taking place all over the world.
As more water is diverted to raising cattle, millions of wells are going dry.

Water Fact Sheet
815
1,630
5,214
43,513 L/Kg
Beef (Metric)

Waste
In the U.S., livestock produces 130 times more waste than people do. While there are strict laws governing the disposal of human waste, laws are lax or nonexistent laws for animal waste.
Animal Waste Is Causing:
Water Pollution
Water Oxygen Depletion
Fish Kills
Aquatic Dead Zones
Diseases
Groundwater Contamination
Nitrate Pollution
Health Issues
Respiratory Problems
Physical and Emotional Illness
Chemical Pollutants and Pathogens
Fecal Bacteria
Illness Outbreaks
Air Pollutants
Report by the U.S. Senate Agricultural Committee:
“Untreated and unsanitary, bubbling with chemicals and disease-bearing organisms...[livestock waste] goes onto the soil and into the water that many people will...ultimately drink. It’s poisoning rivers and killing fish and sickening people. ... Catastrophic cases of pollution, sickness, and death are occurring in areas where livestock operations are concentrated. ... Every place where the animal factories have located, neighbours have complained of falling sick.”
http://www.sierraclub.org/cleanwater/that_stinks/

Grazing
Cattle grazing in the west has polluted more water, eroded more topsoil, killed more fish, displaced more wildlife, and destroyed more vegetation than any other land use.
The USDA’s “Wildlife Services” kills more than 1.5 million wild animals annually that might compete with livestock. This is done at public expense to protect the private interests of cattlemen.
Grazing is one of the leading causes of species endangerment in the U.S.
The #1 factor in elimination of tropical rain forests in Latin America is cattle-grazing.
Livestock now use 1/3 of the earth’s entire land surface, mostly permanent pasture and 1/3 of the global arable land is used to producing feed for livestock.

Deforestation

Forests cleared to create new pastures is a major driver of deforestation.
70% of former forests in the Amazon have been turned over to grazing.

Amount of greenhouse-warming carbon gas released by
driving a typical American car, in one day:
3 Kg
Amount released by clearing and burning enough Costa Rican rainforest to produce beef for one hamburger:
75 Kg
Time before the Costa Rican rainforest would be gone if it were
cleared to produce enough beef for the people of Costa Rica to
eat as much beef, per person, as the people of the USA:
1 year
What one hamburger produced by clearing forest in India would cost if the real costs were included in the price rather than subsidized:
$200

Causes of Deforestation in the Amazon (2000-2005)
Imports of beef by the U.S. from southern Mexico and Central America during the past 25 years has been the major factor in the loss of about half of the tropical forests there – all for the sake of keeping the price of hamburger in the U.S. about a nickel less than it would have been otherwise.

Animal Extinction
Number of bird species in one square mile of Amazon rainforest:
More than exist in all of North America
Life forms destroyed in the production of onefast-food hamburger made from rainforest beef:
Members of 20 to 30 different plant species, 100 different insect species, and dozens of bird, mammal, and reptile species
Leading cause of species in the tropical rainforests being threatened or eliminated:
Livestock grazing
Leading cause of species in the United States
Being threatened or eliminated:
Livestock grazing

Global Warming
U.N. Report Warns:

Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars, UN report warns.
The livestock sector accounts for 9% of CO2, 65% of nitrous oxide, and 37% methane produced from human-related activities. Both methane (23 times) and nitrous oxide (296 times) are considerably more potent greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide.
The environmental costs per unit of livestock production must be cut by 50%, just to avoid the level of damage worsening beyond its present level.

U.N. Report : “Livestock’s Long Shadow–Environmental Issues and Options”

Acid Rain
Livestock generates 64% of human-related ammonia, which contributes significantly to acid rain.
Before
After
U.N. Report : “Livestock’s Long Shadow–Environmental Issues and Options”

Ecological Footprints
Number of people whose food energy needs can be met by the food produced on 2.5 acres of land if the land is producing:
23
22
19
17
15
2
1
1

Reason 4:
Money Talks

Advertizing Fact Sheet
Advertizing
$800 million
$1 million
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight_loss

Cost of Health Care (1955-2005) % of US GDP
$65 Billion
$90 Billion
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
John Robins, The Food Revolution

Healtcare Fact Sheet
High Blood Pressure
300%
58%

Choices
What type of industry are you supporting with your purchasing power?

Food Crisis
“In a world where an estimate 1 in every 6 people goes hungry every day, the politics of meat consumption are increasingly heated, since meat production is an inefficient use of grain – the grain is used more efficiently when consumed directly by humans. Continued growth in meat output is dependent on feeding grains to animals, creating competition for grain between affluent meat eaters and the world’s poor.”

It takes 7 to 10 Kg of grain to produce 1 Kg of Beef
As meat consumption worldwide increases, grain prices increase, putting 2.5 billion living on less than $2 per day at risk.

1. John Robbins, The Food Revolution
2. Worldwatch Institute

Food Crisis Fact Sheet
4 million acres
56 million acres
70%
2. http://www.organicconsumers.org/Corn/abused072705.cfm

Is Ethanol to Blame?
U.S. corn eaten by people:
U.S. corn used for ethanol:
U.S. corn eaten by livestock:
2%
13%
77%
2. http://www.organicconsumers.org/Corn/abused072705.cfm

Policy, Laws & Animal Abuse
To Jail
To Lunch
Abused Puppy
Abused Cow

Meat & Politics
The USDA website, www.usda.gov, shows many key staffers who once worked for the National Cattleman's Beef Association - the industry's most powerful lobbying group. The man in charge of the lobbying arm of the nation's meat packers was also a top USDA official.
Although the FDA’s food pyramid recommends eating less meat and more fruits and vegetables, meat is subsidized by the federal government about 30 times more than fruits and vegetables.
Hiding the truth, making people sick, destroying the environment and killing innocent creatures makes some people rich at your expense!
http://blog.prospect.org/blog/ezraklein/assets/ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/food%20subs%20pyramid.jpg

Reason 5:
Inner Peace
World Peace

Evolution of Consciousness
Normal
1850
Normal
Normal
Banned
Today
Banned ?
2050
Banned

Wisdom from our Elders

Ayurveda the most world’s most ancient and time proven medicinal system based largely on prevention of disease recommends a vegetarian diet.
Ahimsa or Non-Violence is one of the corner stones of Yoga, the world’s most ancient practice for union of the body, mind and soul.
Buddhist Monks commonly practice vegetarianism out of compassion and to benefit from deeper meditations and enhanced inner peace.
Early Christians still close to the direct teachings of Jesus and his disciples were vegetarian.

http://www.ivu.org/history/christian/christ_veg.html

Famous Vegetarians

Abraham Lincoln16th U.S. President
“I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”

Albert EinsteinPhysicistNobel Prize Laureate
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

Benjamin FranklinPolymathU.S.A. Founding Father
“My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.”

Bill PearlFour Times Mr. Universe
When he last won the Mr. Universe in 1971, Bill weighed 242 pounds and his arms measured 21 inches. He won the professional Mr. Universe title at the age of 41, without the use of steroids and as a vegetarian. He is recognized as one of the all-time greats of bodybuilding.
“With each succeeding year the vegetarian diet I've felt better. I'm more healthy, I can train with more energy, and I'm not as much of a "hard guy" as I used to be. I've become more concerned with my fellow man and the other inhabitants I share the planet with. I have now been vegetarian for almost 20 years. Take it from me, there's nothing magic about eating meat that's going to make you a champion bodybuilder. Anything you can find in a piece of meat, you can find in other foods as well."

BuddhaFounder of Buddhism
“To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.”

Carl LewisSports Illustrated Olympian of the Century
Dubbed:
“Fastest Man on Earth”
Called: “Sportsman of the Century” by the International Olympic Committee
Broke: 3 World Records
Won: 10 Olympic Medals
(9 Gold)
Won: 10 World Championships Medals (8 Gold)
Diet: Vegetarian

Charles DarwinEnglish Naturalist
“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”

ConfuciusChinese Philosopher
“Anyone who has ever heard the scream of an animal being killed could never again eat its flesh.”

St-Francis of AssisiChristian Saint
“If you have men who will exclude any of god's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”

George Bernard ShawIrish WriterNobel Prize Laureate
“If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?”
"Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends"

Henry Ford Entrepreneur

Sir Isaac NewtonPhysicist, Astronomer

IsaiahJudean Prophet
“He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man...”
Isaiah 66:3

Jesus ChristFounder of Christianity
The Golden Rule:
“Do not do onto others that which you would not have them do onto you.”
“Yea, I am in all creatures and all creatures are in me. In all their joys I rejoice, in all their afflictions I am afflicted. Wherefore I say unto you: Be ye kind one to another, and to all the creatures of God.”
“They who partake of benefits which are gotten by wronging one of God's creatures cannot be righteous: nor can they touch holy things, whose hands are stained with blood, or whose mouths are defiled with flesh.”

KabirMystic

KrishnaHindu Avatar
“One is dearest to God who has no enemies among the living beings, who is nonviolent to all creatures.”

Mahatma GhandiReformerSpiritual Leader
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

Martina NavratilovaTennis Player Ranked#1 (1978-86)

Lao TzuChinese Philosopher
"I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life."

Leo Tolstoy Russian Writer
“As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.”
"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite".

Leonardo Da VinciItalian Polymath
“The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”

MahaviraFounder of Jainism
“All beings hate pain, therefore one should not hurt kill them. Ahimsa (non-violence) is the highest religion.”

Mark TwainAuthor
“I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.”

MosesJudean Prophet
The 10 Commandments:
6) Thou Shall Not Kill

Plato & AristotleGreek Philosophers
“The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.”

PythagorasMathematician
“For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”

Rabindranath TagoreNobel Prize LaureateMystic
“We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us – in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.”

SocratesGreek Philosopher
"The highest realms of thoughtare impossible to reach without first attainingan understanding of compassion."

H.H. Sri Sri Ravi ShankarHumanitarianSpiritual Leader

Steve JobsEntrepreneur

Thomas EdisonInventor
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”

Vincent Van GoghPainter

VoltaireFrench PhilosopherWriter

VegetarianNobel Prize Laureates

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Romain Rolland
George Bernard Shaw
Rabindranath Tagore
Albert Einstein
Sir C. V. Raman
Albert Schweitzer
Linus Pauling
George Wald
C. Subrahmanyam
Elie Wiesel
Aung San SuuKyi
V. S. Naipaul
JM Coetzee
Albert Szentgyrgyi

Vegetarian Musicians

Bob Dylan
Bryan Adams
George Harrison
Gladys Knight
Gustav Holst
Indigo Girls
Joan Baez
John Denver
John Lennon
Justin Timberlake
Lenny Kravitz
Leonard Cohen
Melissa Etheridge
Michael Bolton
Moby
Morrissey
Natalie Merchant
Olivia Newton John
Paul McCartney
Pink
Prince
Richard Wagner
Ringo Starr
Sarah McLachlan
Seal
Shania Twain
Sinead O'Connor
Tina Turner
Vanessa Williams
Etc.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. -Paul McCartney.

Vegetarian Celebrities

Alicia Silverstone
Alyssa Milano
Alec Baldwin
Anthony Perkins
Bill Maher
Brad Pitt
Brigitte Bardot
Brooke Shields
Cameron Diaz
Christie Brinkley
Christy Turlington
Clint Eastwood
Corey Feldman
Danny DeVito
Demi Moore
Dustin Hoffman
Gwyneth Paltrow
Jerry Seinfeld
Kim Basinger
Kirk Cameron
Lisa Bonet
Maggie Q
Pamela Anderson
Paul Newman
Richard Gere
River Phoenix
Rosanna Arquette
Steven Seagal
Etc.

“People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.” - Richard Gere

Eating Habits

Myth #1:Plants suffer too!
You really can’t see the difference?
Honestly?

Myth #2:I Need to Eat Meat to make Muscles!
Eats Meat
Really?
Vegetarian
Eats Grass
Vegetarian
Vegetarian
Vegetarian
Vegetarian
Vegetarian
Vegetarian
Vegetarian

Myth #3:Vegetarians Lack Protein
Too much protein is as harmful as too little, and is linked with shorter life expectancy, increased cancer and heart disease risk, widespread obesity and diabetes, osteoporosis, kidney stress, and bad digestion.
High protein-diets bring about temporary weight-loss, at the expense of overall health, and people quickly regain weight once they return to a normal diet.
A varied vegetarian diet with a balance of protein, fats & carbohydrates, and adequate calorie intake provides more than enough protein.
Complete animal protein is not superior to complete protein from more than one plant source – they give the same result in different ways.
Protein from plant sources doesn't include excess calories from fat, toxic residues, or an overabundance of protein, which stresses the kidneys .
http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/articles/protein-veg-diet.php

Tip #1Eat Whole Wheat

White flour provide little nutritional value and squeeze healthier foods out of one’s diet.
High intake of whole grains, reduces the risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease.
98% of the wheat eaten in the U.S. is eaten as white flour.

Tip #2Reduce Sugar Intake

Sugar depresses the immune system
Sugar upsets the body's mineral balance.
Sugar contributes to hyperactivity, anxiety, depression, concentration difficulties, and crankiness in children.
Sugar causes drowsiness and decreased activity.
Sugar reduces helpful high density cholesterol (HDLs).
Sugar promotes an elevation of harmful cholesterol (LDLs).
Sugar can cause hypoglycaemia.
Sugar contributes to a weakened defence against bacterial infection.
Sugar can cause kidney damage.
The average U.S. kid sees 1,000 ads every week for sugary cereals, candy, soda, and other junk food.
5,000 schools in the U.S. have contracts with fast-food companies and junk-food manufacturers to provide food for their cafeterias and/or vending machines.
The average north American consumes 53 teaspoons of sugar per day.
In the last century, sugar consumption per year per person has increased from 5 lbs to 135 lbs.
A daily dosing of sugar results in a more acidic body. To correct the imbalance, the body draws on minerals from deep within. For example: calcium is drawn from the bones and teeth, so much in fact that it tends to weaken and decay the bones. This precipitates osteoarthritis.
http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/sugar.htm
http://www.ghchealth.com/refined-sugar.html

Tip #3Eliminate Soft Drinks
Good use of Carbonated Drinks:
Clean Toilets
Remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers
Clean corrosion from car battery terminals
To loosen a rusted bolt
To remove grease from clothes
Clean road haze from your windshield.

Fifty-six percent of 8-year-olds down soft drinks daily, and a third of teenage boys drink at least three cans of soda pop per day.
In 2004, Americans spent $66 billion on carbonated drinks, and billions more on noncarbonated soft drinks.
Dentists are reporting that front teeth of many young boys and girls are almost completely void of enamel from drinking too much soda.
For each additional daily serving of soft drink, the risk of obesity increases 160%.
Caffeine in soda causes dependency and leads to splitting headache, rise in blood pressure, irritability and stomach problems.
A 1994 Harvard study found that girls who drank cola were about five times more likely to suffer bone fractures than girls who didn't consume soda pop.
http://www.preventdisease.com/home/tips43.shtml

Tip #4Quit Smoking
Facts:

Nicotine is a drug and creates dependency.
More than 4,000 toxic or carcinogenic chemicals have been found in tobacco smoke.

Annual Global Societal Cost:

440 Billion Dollars
5.4 Million Lives

Heath Effects:
Heart Disease, Cancer, Pulmonary Disease, Stroke, Impotence
Social Effects:
Harmful to second hand smokers, loss of productivity

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Tip # 5Avoid Alcohol
Facts:

Alcohol is a drug and you can become addicted to it.
Alcohol changes the way your mind and your body work. Even one drink can slow your reactions and confuse your thinking.

885 Billion Dollars
1.8 Million Lives

Heath Effects:
Disease, Brain Damage, Brain Shrinkage, Organ Failure, Birth Defects...
Social Effects:
Child Abuse, Marital Violence, Crime, Suicide, Vandalism...

Tip #6Say No to Drugs
Facts:

Drugs create addiction.
Illegal drugs are a factor in 50% of burglaries.
60% of people arrested each year have been taking illegal drugs.

880 Billion Dollars
223,000 Lives

Heath Effects:
Brain Damage, Stroke, Disease, Permanent Memory Loss, Mental Illness
Social Effects:
Crime, Burglaries, Violence, Depression, Suicide

Healthy Eating Habits

Do not Overeat
Eat with Awareness
Eat Freshly Prepared Foods
Eat Local Foods
Eat Foods in Season
Start a backyard garden

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