Being vegan is healthier, than any other diet possible and that isn't even touch the hormones and antibiotics, used in raising animals, and the possibilities and realities of meat borne illness, Mad Cow Disease etc. . Better for your heart. Proven to reduce heart disease, and even reverse coronary heart disease. Automatically lower s your cholesterol levels. The only foods that contain cholesterol are animal products, like meat and dairy. And since a three-decade-long study found that not a single subject with a cholesterol level below 150 has ever developed heart disease, that's hard to ignore! Vegans have lower rates of obesity, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, large bowel disorders, cancers and gallstones. Reduces stroke risks and coronary artery disease. Reduces symptoms of fibromyalgia. Reduces food poisoning. 95% of food poisoning is linked to animal products. Your bowels will work much better, therefore, keeping your whole system healthier. Live longer healthier lives. One 21-year-long study that compared meat-eaters and vegetarians showed that the greater the meat consumption, the greater the death rate from all causes combined. Increased vegetable and fruit intake reduces your need for taking a multi vitamin plus increases your antioxidant intake.

"Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take." -Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop

"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. And to act so is immoral." Leo Tolstoy

"Vegetarians have the best diet. They have the lowest rates of coronary disease of any group in the country.... Some people scoff at vegetarians, but they have a fraction of our heart attack rate and they have only 40 percent of our cancer rate. They outlive other men by about six years now." -Dr.William Castelli

"Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases." -Dr.Campbell

"Would you like to go to pasture with a chicken,cut him up, then drop him into a fresh manure pile, and eat him? That's what the product is like coming from chicken plants today." -Chicken Inspector

Non violence is a goal everyone should be after. Have a clear conscience for avoiding forcing pain to anything sentient. The Bible says "Though Shalt not kill. " It doesn't say it's ok to kill animals or Iranians, it says "Thou shalt not kill.

"May all that have life be delivered from suffering." -Buddha

"Of what use are all your sacrifices to Me? I have had enough of the roasted carcasses of rams and of the fat of fattened beasts. I take no pleasure in the blood of calves, lambs and goats . When you spread out your hands, I close My eyes to you; despite however much you pray, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood! Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds from before My eyes and stop doing evil." -Isaiah 1:11, 1:15-16

"Their were no Slaughterhouses in the Garden of Eden." -Unknown

 Eating meat is totally unnecessary.
There is no proof, what so ever, that a person must eat animal flesh or any by products of animals to be healthy, yet there is overwhelming proof that it truely is best not to!

  Living a vegan lifestyle is, of course, the most compassionate way to exist. Animals feel pain. Period. Why would someone choose to torture something for their own pleasure.

Show that you are a caring person. Modern agriculture keeps cows, calves, pigs, chickens, turkeys, ducks, and other animals in small overcrowded sheds, stalls, cages, or crates, where they're often unable even to turn around. These intelligent, social animals are deprived of veterinary care, exercise, sunlight--even the feel of grass under their feet. What we eat means choosing between the horrors of factory farming and respect for another sentient being.
There is a lot more that should be said and shown on the cruelty aspects of using animals. No one can deny it is beyond horrendous what we humans do to animals, all of which is totally unnecessary.

• What we eat is a learned process or habit. Different societies eat different things. Some people eat dog, yet most Americans would say that that is completely wrong and intolerable. Yet, what is the difference between killing a dog for food and killing a cow? A dog feels pain. A cow feels pain...
• Being vegan is a lot more environmentally friendly, than a meat diet, even more so when one sticks with organic products. .. Eating a meat diet contributes more pollution, uses more land, more water, more deforestation, and more energy than a vegan diet.
  • Protect the planet for future generations.
  • Saves trees, reduces forest destruction for cow pastures. Between 1960 and 1985 alone, nearly 40 percent of all Central American rain forests were destroyed to create cheap grazing land for cows later served on North American and European plates. Going vegan saves one acre of forest every year. (Who knows what else we are losing while creating desserts out of forests.)
  • Uses less water. More than half of all water used in the U.S. is used to raise and kill animals for the table.
  • Uses less fossil fuels. Producing just one hamburger uses enough fossil fuel to drive a small car 20 miles.
    Creates less pollution. Animal feces is a major contributor to global warming and acid rain, plus pollutes numerous rivers and water sheds annually.
  • The worlds 17 major fisheries are at the point of collapse because of over fishing.

    "The world's environment can no longer handle beef." -Jeremy Rifkin of Beyond Beef

    
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• Consider the Welfare of humanity. We can feed more people in the world on the food that animals, raised as food, eat than we can on the "food" one gets from animals. The amount of vegetable protein fed to the US beef herd would feed almost the entire populations of India and China - two billion people.
• Save Money. Plant nutrition costs a lot less than animal based.
• Helps reduce National debt. Americans spend between $60 billion and $120 billion annually to treat heart disease, cancer, obesity, and food poisoning that are primarily caused by animal based diets.
• Plant based foods taste great!

Check into the recipes page, or the prepared vegan food page, the menu page for lots of ideas.... There are also hundreds of other websites that have wonderful recipes and ideas.
A vegan diet can also be as gluttonous as any diet…. Beer, French Fries, cookies….. so, as in ALL diets, watching what one eats is important.