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 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.
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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.
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Excessive
animal protein
is at the core
of many chronic
diseases."
-Dr.Campbell
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"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
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- 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.
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"May
all that have
life be
delivered from
suffering."
-Buddha
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"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
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"Their
were no
Slaughterhouses
in the Garden
of
Eden."
-Unknown
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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.
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"Do
we, as humans,
having an
ability to
reason and to
communicate
abstract ideas
verbally and in
writing, and to
form ethical
and moral
judgments using
the accumulated
knowledge of
the ages, have
the right to
take the lives
of other
sentient
organisms,
particularly
when we are not
forced to do so
by hunger or
dietary need,
but rather do
so for the
somewhat
frivolous
reason that we
like the taste
of meat? In
essence,
shouldn't we
know
better?"
-Peter
Cheeke
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"If
you don't like
my opinions
leave. But just
remember, the
animals can't
leave the cages
that hold them.
They are
captive and
suffering. As
you cozy into
your bed
tonight, try to
imagine the
pain and the
suffering that
they endure day
after day and
night after
night. Next
time you get
some soap in
your eyes, try
to imagine that
pain for 3 or 4
days at a time.
Next time you
have a stomach
ache, try to
imagine liquid
plumber being
poured down
your throat
till you puke
so much blood
that you bleed
to death. Next
time you bump
your head, try
to imagine
being a monkey
and getting a
steel plate
smashed into
your skull at
50 miles per
hour. Then,
only then
should you feel
compelled to
tell me that
I'm wrong about
my opinions.
For all these
things have
happened in the
name of
science. They
continue in
abundance till
this
day."
-Ricki
Rockett
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"The
thinking man
must oppose all
cruel customs
no matter how
deeply rooted
in tradition
and surrounded
by a halo. When
we have a
choice, we must
avoid bringing
torment and
injury into the
life of
another, even
the lowliest
creature; to do
so is to
renounce our
manhood and
shoulder a
guilt which
nothing
justifies."
-Albert
Schweitzer
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"Killing
animals for
sport, for
pleasure, for
adventure, and
for hides and
furs is a
phenomena which
is at once
disgusting and
distressing.
There is no
justification
in indulging is
such acts of
brutality."
-The
XLV Dalai
Lama
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"We
consume the
carcasses of
creatures of
like appetites,
passions and
organs with our
own, and fill
the
slaughterhouses
daily with
screams of pain
and
fear."
-Robert
Louis
Stevenson
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- 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.
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"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.
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