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  1. Are You Ready to Step Out of the Meatrix?
    101 Good
    Reasons
    to Eat Vegetarian Food
  2. Reason 1:
    Stay Healthy
  3. 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
  4. Cardiovascular Disease Fact Sheet
    210
    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
  5. What is the #2 Killer in America?
    Cancer
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
  6. 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
  7. 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
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
  8. 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
  9. Fact Sheet
    33-55 Billion
    3:1
    40 g
    3 g
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight_loss
  10. Health & Life Expectancy Fact Sheet
    Lower
    Lower
    Lower
    Lower
    Lower
    Lower
    Lower
    Higher
    Stronger
    6 Years
    10 Years
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
  11. 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
  12. Reason 2:
    Healthier for Animals Too!
  13. How we like to perceive farms...
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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.
    http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming_chickens.asp
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
  22. 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.
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
    http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming_chickens.asp
  23. 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
  24. 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.
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
    http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4047
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_farming
  25. What’s in your Meat?
    Antibiotics
    Steroids
    Pesticides
    Hormones
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
  26. 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
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
  27. 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
  28. Reason 3:
    Healthier for the Planet!
  29. 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.
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
  30. 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.
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
  31. Water Fact Sheet
    815
    1,630
    5,214
    43,513 L/Kg
    Beef (Metric)
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
  32. 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.”
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
    http://www.sierraclub.org/cleanwater/that_stinks/
  33. 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.
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
  34. 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
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
  35. 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.
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
  36. 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
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
  37. 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”
  38. 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”
  39. 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
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
  40. Reason 4:
    Money Talks
  41. Advertizing Fact Sheet
    Advertizing
    $800 million
    $1 million
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight_loss
  42. Cost of Health Care (1955-2005) % of US GDP
    $65 Billion
    $90 Billion
    Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
    John Robins, The Food Revolution
  43. Healtcare Fact Sheet
    High Blood Pressure
    300%
    58%
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
  44. Choices
    What type of industry are you supporting with your purchasing power?
  45. 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
  46. Food Crisis Fact Sheet
    4 million acres
    56 million acres
    70%
    1. John Robbins, The Food Revolution
    2. http://www.organicconsumers.org/Corn/abused072705.cfm
  47. 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%
    1. John Robbins, The Food Revolution
    2. http://www.organicconsumers.org/Corn/abused072705.cfm
  48. Policy, Laws & Animal Abuse
    To Jail
    To Lunch
    Abused Puppy
    Abused Cow
    1. John Robbins, The Food Revolution
  49. 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!
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
    http://blog.prospect.org/blog/ezraklein/assets/ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/food%20subs%20pyramid.jpg
  50. Reason 5:
    Inner Peace
    World Peace
  51. Evolution of Consciousness
    Normal
    1850
    Normal
    Normal
    Banned
    Today
    Banned ?
    2050
    Banned
  52. 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
  53. Famous Vegetarians
  54. 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.”
  55. 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.”
  56. 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.”
  57. 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."
  58. BuddhaFounder of Buddhism
    “To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.”
  59. 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
  60. Charles DarwinEnglish Naturalist
    “The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”
  61. ConfuciusChinese Philosopher
    “Anyone who has ever heard the scream of an animal being killed could never again eat its flesh.”
  62. 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.”
  63. 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"
  64. Henry Ford Entrepreneur
  65. Sir Isaac NewtonPhysicist, Astronomer
  66. IsaiahJudean Prophet
    “He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man...”
    Isaiah 66:3
  67. 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.”
  68. KabirMystic
  69. KrishnaHindu Avatar
    “One is dearest to God who has no enemies among the living beings, who is nonviolent to all creatures.”
  70. Mahatma GhandiReformerSpiritual Leader
    “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
  71. Martina NavratilovaTennis Player Ranked#1 (1978-86)
  72. 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."
  73. 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".
  74. 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.”
  75. MahaviraFounder of Jainism
    “All beings hate pain, therefore one should not hurt kill them. Ahimsa (non-violence) is the highest religion.”
  76. 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.”
  77. MosesJudean Prophet
    The 10 Commandments:
    6) Thou Shall Not Kill
  78. Plato & AristotleGreek Philosophers
    “The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.”
  79. 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.”
  80. 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.”
  81. SocratesGreek Philosopher
    "The highest realms of thoughtare impossible to reach without first attainingan understanding of compassion."
  82. H.H. Sri Sri Ravi ShankarHumanitarianSpiritual Leader
  83. Steve JobsEntrepreneur
  84. 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.”
  85. Vincent Van GoghPainter
  86. VoltaireFrench PhilosopherWriter
  87. 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
  88. 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.
  89. 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
  90. Eating Habits
  91. Myth #1:Plants suffer too!
    You really can’t see the difference?
    Honestly?
  92. Myth #2:I Need to Eat Meat to make Muscles!
    Eats Meat
    Really?
    Vegetarian
    Eats Grass
    Vegetarian
    Vegetarian
    Vegetarian
    Vegetarian
    Vegetarian
    Vegetarian
    Vegetarian
  93. 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
  94. 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.
    John Robbins, The Food Revolution
  95. 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.
    • John Robbins, The Food Revolution
    • http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/sugar.htm
    • http://www.ghchealth.com/refined-sugar.html
  96. 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
  97. 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
    • http://suprememastertv.com/flyer/
  98. 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.
    Annual Global Societal Cost:
    • 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...
    http://suprememastertv.com/flyer/
  99. 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.
    Annual Global Societal Cost:
    • 880 Billion Dollars
    • 223,000 Lives
    Heath Effects:
    Brain Damage, Stroke, Disease, Permanent Memory Loss, Mental Illness
    Social Effects:
    Crime, Burglaries, Violence, Depression, Suicide
    • http://suprememastertv.com/flyer/
  100. Healthy Eating Habits
    • Do not Overeat
    • Eat with Awareness
    • Eat Freshly Prepared Foods
    • Eat Local Foods
    • Eat Foods in Season
    • Start a backyard garden
  101. Suggested Reading
    • John Robbins, The Food Revolution
  102. Take Action!
  103. Feedback
    Please send your comments, suggestions and feedback to Antoine at:
    vegetarian108@gmail.com
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