10 Reasons To Go Vegan
1. A Plant Based Diet has been proven to reduce or reverse the risk of deadly diseases, including heart disease, diabetes & certain cancers.
2. A Vegan diet contains ZERO cholesterol.
3. 16 times more fossil fuels are needed to create one steak than to produce a plate of broccoli, eggplant, cauliflower & rice.
4. Cows expel methane, a greenhouse gas that is 23 times more potent than CO2.
5. Vegans live an average of 8 years longer than meat eaters.
6. Vegans require less pharmaceutical drugs than meat eaters.
7. Without a “Dairy industry”, there would no longer be a “Veal industry”.
8. Most meat served in America comes from Factory Farms, where animals are pumped with steroids, antibiotics and other harmful toxins, which end up in your body!
9. As meat production and consumption rises, so do cancer rates.
10. Last but certainly not least, animals on factory farms are raised under the cruelest of conditions. Debeaking, defeathering and scalding alive, are common practices with birds. Cows and pigs are are raised in such an inhumane nature, that it torture, plain & simple. Put into fewer words… #10 should simply say, “Eating meat is unethical”.
I’m a fairly brand-new vegan of 2 months now. Do you have any helpful tips or advice for me? Hahah i’m kinda addicted to pondering around in vegan blogs and me and my sister are trying out raw and seeing how that goes too! Please check out my blog, I would deeply appreciate it
Thank you and i love your blog!
First of all, I am totally impressed that you have made the switch to the healthiest & most compassionate lifestyle on earth!!! It is not easy, but it is really worth it! Many people will question you, criticize you, and even try to persuade you to go back to eating meat. You need to stay strong & proud, get educated on the benefits of Veganism and prove to the world that you are completely happy and healthy without animal flesh & bi-products in your body!!
Keep checking out blogs and communicating with other friendly Vegans. Subscribe to Veg News Magazine, buy some Vegan cookbooks, and get involved with some animal welfare organizations. My favorite is Farm Sanctuary!
Don’t be afraid to bring your own food & snacks to parties!
Check out Alicia Silvertone’s site & book “The Kind Diet” & get involved in her forums.
Please let me know if you ever have questions or concerns!!!
I tried to jump on your blog but it said it didn’t exist. Can you give it to me again?
Thanks & GOOD LUCK!!!!!!
I do bring my own food @ office and even on my sis in law wedding!