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3. What is the #1
Killer in America? Heart Disease
28.5% of all deaths
Vegetarians?
24% reduction
“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
4. What is the #2
Killer in America?
Cancer
22.8% of all deaths
Vegetarians?
60% reduction
“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
5. How to Reduce Heart
Disease and Cancer?
More of These: Less of Those:
6. Obesity US population overweight
or obese; causing
increased risks of
premature death:
55%
Obesity between General
US and Vegetarian US
populations:
3:1
Amount spent annually on
weight loss programs in
the US:
$75 Billion
7. Smart Lifestyle
Are Vegetarians Healthier?
Heart Disease: Less
Cancer: Less
High Blood Pressure: Less
Obesity: Less
Hypertension: Less
Gall Stones: Less
Diabetes: Less
Osteoporosis: Less
Are Vegetarians Healthier?
Life Expectancy: More
Years Added to Your Life If You Don’t…
Immune System: More
Smoke: 6
Eat Meat: 10
8. Human?
What Are We
Designed to Eat?
Did you notice how
Body Part Herbivore Carnivore
quickly we digest
Facial Muscles Well-Developed Reduced
vegetarian food in
comparison to non- Good Side-to- Minimal Side-to-
Jaw Motion
Side Motion Side Motion
vegetarian foods?
Broad & Flat for Sharp & Pointed
Teeth
Grinding for Tearing
Extensive
Chewing Swallowing
Chewing
Saliva Alkaline Acidic
10-12 times 3-6 times
Colon
body length body length
Fingers No claws Claws
Perspiration Skin Pores Tongue
9. I don’t
have any
Reason 2:
spare ribs! Healthier for
Animals Too!
Jesus
loves me
too!
I’m not a
nugget!
12. Fish Farm Facts:
Foul Fish Farms Aquaculture is growing 3 times faster than
land-based animal agriculture.
Fish farms are rife with
pollution, disease, and suffering.
Aquafarms pollute the environment with of
fish faeces, 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.
13. What about
Wild Fish?
Wild Fish 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.
Today’s 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.
14. What about
Family Farms?
From 1967 to 2002,
about 90% of farms in
America shut down -
unable to compete
with
mega factory farms.
Today, just 4
companies produce
81% of cows, 73% of
sheep, 57% of pigs
and 50% of chickens.
15. What’s in
your Meat?
Antibiotics
Steroids
Pesticides
Hormones
Meat contains on average 13 times more pesticides than vegetables
80% of all antibiotics sold in USA go to farm animals
16. Food Borne
Illnesses
Animals that have been
standing in yards of faeces and
urine for long periods of time, Primary source of E.Coli: Beef
have a range of health issues
such as cancerous growths, Primary source of Campylobacter: Chicken
cysts, pustules, and are just Primary source of Salmonella: Eggs
sick, miserable animals.
17. Animal Lover?
Are you really?
Hey Mom,
What’s for Dinner? Which do you pet?
Fake Name Real Name Which do you eat?
Beef Cow
Steak Grilled Cow
Veal Baby Cow
Boeuf Cow cooked
Bourguignon with pork fat
Fillet Mignon Cow’s Loin
Tender Meat Slaughtered Why?
Factory Cow
Can you tell your
kids the truth?
19. Water Depletion
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 and 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
20. Gallons of Water Required
Water Waste to Produce One Pound of...
Lettuce 23
Tomatoes 23
Water in the USA used Potatoes 24
to raise livestock: Wheat 25
Half of all water used Carrots 33
Apples 49
You save more water Gallons of Water Required
by not eating 1 pound to Produce One Pound of...
of meat than you do Chicken 815
by not showering for Pork 1,630
6 months! Beef 5,214
A vegan diet requires only 300 gallons of water per day,
while a typical meat-eating diet requires
more than 4,000 gallons of water per day.
John Robbins, The Food Revolution
21. According to the EPA, hog, chicken &
Water Pollution cattle waste has polluted 35,000 miles
of rivers in the USA and contaminated
groundwater.
In the U.S., livestock produces 130 times
Animal Waste Causes:
Water Pollution
more waste than people do. While there
Water Oxygen Depletion are strict laws governing the disposal of
Fish Kills human waste, laws are lax or
Aquatic Dead Zones nonexistent for animal waste.
Diseases
Groundwater Contamination
Nitrate Pollution
Health Issues
Respiratory Problems
Physical and Emotional Illness
Chemical Pollutants and
Pathogens
Fecal Bacteria
Illness Outbreaks
Air Pollutants
John Robbins, The Food Revolution
http://www.sierraclub.org/cleanwater/that_stinks/
22. Land Use
Cattle grazing in the west has Livestock uses 1/3 of the
polluted more water, eroded
more topsoil, killed more earth’s entire land surface,
fish, displaced more mostly permanent pasture.
wildlife, and destroyed more
vegetation than any other
land use.
John Robbins, The Food Revolution
23. 70% of former forests
Deforestation
in the Amazon were
razed for grazing.
Greenhouse-warming carbon gas released by clearing and
burning enough rainforest to produce just 1 hamburger is
equivalent to driving a typical American car for 25 days.
John Robbins, The Food Revolution
24. Animal Extinction
Leading cause of
species in the US
and in South
American
tropical
rainforests being
threatened or
eliminated:
Livestock
Grazing
John Robbins, The Food Revolution
25. Global Warming
U.N. Report Warns:
Rearing cattle produces
more greenhouse gases
than driving cars.
The livestock sector
accounts for 9% of CO2,
65% of nitrous oxide, and
37% methane produced
from human-related
activities. Methane is 23
times and nitrous oxide 296
times more potent
greenhouse gases than
carbon dioxide.
U.N. Report : “Livestock’s Long Shadow–Environmental Issues and Options”
26. Acid Rain
Livestock
generates 64% of
human-related
ammonia, which
contributes
significantly to
acid rain.
U.N. Report : “Livestock’s Long Shadow–Environmental Issues and Options”
27. Sustainability
2.5 Acres of Land can Feed:
Cabbage 23 people
Potatoes 22 people
Rice 19 people
Corn 17 people
Wheat 15 people
2.5 Acres of Land can Feed:
Chicken 2 people
Eggs 1 person
Beef 1 person
John Robbins, The Food Revolution
29. Where most Americans
Advertizing learn about food:
Advertizing
Amount spent annually by
McDonald’s on advertizing:
$800 million
Amount spent annually by
the National Cancer
Institute to promote fruits
and vegetables:
$1 million
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight_loss
30. High Healthcare Annual US healthcare
costs due to smoking:
Pressure $65 Billion
Most common problem for
which people go to doctors Annual US healthcare
in the USA: costs due to meat-
High Blood Pressure centered diets:
$90 Billion
Incidence of high blood
pressure in meat eaters
compared to vegetarians:
300%
Patients who are able to
discontinue medication
after adopting a high-fiber
vegetarian diet:
58%
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
John Robins, The Food Revolution
32. “In a world where an estimate 1 in every 6 people goes
hungry every day, the politics of meat consumption are
Food Crisis 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
10 Kg of grain competition for grain between affluent meat eaters and the
world’s poor.”
produces… - Worldwatch Institute
Only 1 Kg of Beef
If meat consumption
increases, then
grain prices increase,
putting at risk 2.5
billion people living
on less than $2/day.
1. John Robbins, The Food Revolution
2. Worldwatch Institute
33. Unsustainable
Production
U.S. farmland producing
vegetables:
4 million acres
U.S. farmland producing
hay for livestock:
56 million acres
U.S. grain and cereals fed
to livestock:
70%
1. John Robbins, The Food Revolution
2. http://www.organicconsumers.org/Corn/abused072705.cfm
34. Who’s Eating
Our Food?
People Livestock
2% 77%
1. John Robbins, The Food Revolution
2. http://www.organicconsumers.org/Corn/abused072705.cfm
35. Inconsistent
Policies
Where do you go for Where do you go for
abusing a puppy? abusing a cow?
To Jail To Lunch
36. 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.
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.
John Robbins, The Food Revolution
http://blog.prospect.org/blog/ezraklein/assets/ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/food%20subs%20pyramid.jpg
38. Evolution of
Consciousness
Year Human Animal
Slavery Slavery
1850 Common None
Today Banned Common
2050 Banned Banned ?
39. Time Tested
Wisdom 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
43. Myth #2:
I Need to Eat Meat to
make Muscles! Eats Meat
Really?
Strongest Mammals on Earth:
Buffalos Vegetarian
Bulls Vegetarian Eats Grass
Camels Vegetarian
Elephants Vegetarian
Giraffes Vegetarian
Hippos Vegetarian
Horses Vegetarian
Rhinoceros Vegetarian
44. Myth #3:
Vegetarians Lack Protein
Protein Facts:
1. 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.
2. High protein-diets bring about
temporary weight-loss, at the
expense of overall health, and 4. Complete animal protein is not superior to
people quickly regain weight once complete protein from more than one plant
they return to a normal diet. source – they give the same result in different
ways.
3. A varied vegetarian diet with a
balance of protein, fats & 5. Protein from plant sources doesn't include
carbohydrates, and adequate excess calories from fat, toxic residues, or an
calorie intake provides more than overabundance of protein, which stresses the
enough protein. kidneys .
http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/articles/protein-veg-diet.php
15 Most Common Causes of Death in the United StatesWhere you live has a good deal to do with how you will die. In the United States, the top two causes of death are responsible for more than 50 percent of the annual death toll. In the world at large, there's a lot more variety in how you meet your Maker. Here is our list of the 15 most common causes of death in the United States:Cause Percent of Total Diseases of the heart 28.5% Malignant tumors 22.8%Cerebrovascular diseases 6.7% Chronic lower respiratory diseases 5.1% Accidents (unintentional injuries) 4.4% Diabetes mellitus 3.0% Influenza and pneumonia 2.7% Alzheimer's disease 2.4% Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis 1.7%Septicemia (blood poisoning) 1.4% Suicide 1.3% Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis 1.1% Primary hypertension and hypertensive renal disease 0.8% Parkinson's disease (tied) 0.7% Homicide (tied) 0.7%Source: CDC/NHS, National Vital Statistics System
15 Most Common Causes of Death in the United StatesWhere you live has a good deal to do with how you will die. In the United States, the top two causes of death are responsible for more than 50 percent of the annual death toll. In the world at large, there's a lot more variety in how you meet your Maker. Here is our list of the 15 most common causes of death in the United States:Cause Percent of Total Diseases of the heart 28.5% Malignant tumors 22.8%Cerebrovascular diseases 6.7% Chronic lower respiratory diseases 5.1% Accidents (unintentional injuries) 4.4% Diabetes mellitus 3.0% Influenza and pneumonia 2.7% Alzheimer's disease 2.4% Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis 1.7%Septicemia (blood poisoning) 1.4% Suicide 1.3% Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis 1.1% Primary hypertension and hypertensive renal disease 0.8% Parkinson's disease (tied) 0.7% Homicide (tied) 0.7%Source: CDC/NHS, National Vital Statistics System
www.fishinghurts.com/fishFarms.aspAquaculture 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.
Since the 960s, the demand for meat has tripled while 2 million family farms have shut down.John Robbins, The Food Revolutionhttp://skeptoid.com/episodes/4047http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_farming
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.
Water in the USA to raise animals for food: 50% of all water usedYou save more water by not eating a pound of meat than you do by not showering for six months!A vegan diet requires only 300 gallons of water per day, while a typical meat-eating diet requires more than 4,000 gallons of water per day.
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.”
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 uses 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.
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: 3KgAmount released by clearing and burning enough Costa Rican rainforest to produce beef for one hamburger: 75 KgTime 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 YearWhat one hamburger produced by clearing forest in India would cost if the real costs were included in the price rather than subsidized: $200Imports 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 nickelless than it would have been otherwise.
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 nickelless than it would have been otherwise.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
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.
Number of people that can be fed with whose food energy needs can be met by the food produced on 2.5 acres of land if the land is producing:
AdvertizingWhere most Americans get their information about foods: AdvertizingAmount spent annually by McDonald’s on advertizing its products: $800 millionAmount spent annually by the National Cancer Institute promoting fruits and vegetables: $1 million
Blood PressureMost common problem for which people go to doctors in the USA: High Blood PressureIncidence of high blood pressure in meat eaters compared to vegetarians: 300%Patients who are able to completely discontinue use of medication after adopting high-fiber vegetarian diet: 58%
It takes 7-10 Kg of grain to produce 1 Kg of BeefAs meat consumption worldwide increases, grain prices increase, putting 2.5 billion living on less than $2 per day at risk.“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.”
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 .