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30 reasons to be vegan
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]1. Vegan diets offer disease protection because of lower cholesterol and animal protein and higher folates, antioxidant vitamins and plant nutrients.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]2. Vegans are less likely to suffer strokes caused by coronary artery disease.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]3. 95% of all food poisoning comes from meat and animal products.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]4. Vegans have half to three-quarters of the risk of dying of heart disease compared to meat eaters.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]5. Vegans often live longer and suffer less from several chronic diseases.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]6. Vegans have excellent health. Protein is not a limiting factor.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]7. Zinc levels are normal in vegans.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]8. New research suggests that dementia may be linked to a BSE-like 'prion' found in some meat.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]9. Vegans have lower rates of obesity, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, large bowel disorders, cancers and gallstones.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]10. Vegan diets have been successful in arresting and reversing coronary heart disease.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]11. A vegan diet can reduce cholesterol levels (cholesterol is linked to heart disease - fruit and vegetables contain none).[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]12. Vegans are no more likely to suffer anaemia than meat eaters.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]13. Antioxidants protect against more than 60 diseases. Found mostly in fruit and vegetables.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]14. Vegans have higher intakes of folic acid than omnivores.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]15. Diabetes is much less likely to be a cause of death in vegans.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]16. Hypertension (high blood pressure) in vegans is one third to one half that of meat eaters.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]17. The amount of veg protein fed to the US beef herd would feed almost the entire populations of India and China - two billion people.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]18. A vegan diet meets all the nutritional needs of infants and adolescents. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]19. 35% of the world's people can be fed on a meat-based diet. A plant diet could feed everyone.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]20. Animal faeces are a major cause of acid rain - in Holland and Belgium, the main cause.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]21. Deserts spread every year - by an area the size of England and Scotland. Livestock grazing is the main cause.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]22. Rain forests are still being felled to graze hamburger cattle. Going vegan saves one acre of forest every year.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]23. The world's 17 major fisheries are on the point of collapse because of over-fishing.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]24. On irrigated land, 1lb of beef uses 5,214 gallons.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]25. Disease, dirt and crowding, antibiotics and chemical growth enhancers - that's the five-month life of most pigs.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]26. 24% of dairy cows are pregnant when slaughtered - many nearing full term.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]27. Calves are taken from their mothers a day or two after birth. Males are usually killed.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]28. Amount of grain needed to end extreme hunger - 40 million tonnes. Amount of grain fed to animals in the West - 540 million tonnes.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]29. Most ducks are factory farmed in crowded sheds. They never see daylight or swim in water.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]30. The majority of calves, lambs and pigs are conscious when their throats are cut.[/FONT]
from: www.liberation-mag.org.uk/vegan
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]1. Vegan diets offer disease protection because of lower cholesterol and animal protein and higher folates, antioxidant vitamins and plant nutrients.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]2. Vegans are less likely to suffer strokes caused by coronary artery disease.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]3. 95% of all food poisoning comes from meat and animal products.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]4. Vegans have half to three-quarters of the risk of dying of heart disease compared to meat eaters.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]5. Vegans often live longer and suffer less from several chronic diseases.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]6. Vegans have excellent health. Protein is not a limiting factor.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]7. Zinc levels are normal in vegans.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]8. New research suggests that dementia may be linked to a BSE-like 'prion' found in some meat.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]9. Vegans have lower rates of obesity, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, large bowel disorders, cancers and gallstones.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]10. Vegan diets have been successful in arresting and reversing coronary heart disease.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]11. A vegan diet can reduce cholesterol levels (cholesterol is linked to heart disease - fruit and vegetables contain none).[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]12. Vegans are no more likely to suffer anaemia than meat eaters.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]13. Antioxidants protect against more than 60 diseases. Found mostly in fruit and vegetables.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]14. Vegans have higher intakes of folic acid than omnivores.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]15. Diabetes is much less likely to be a cause of death in vegans.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]16. Hypertension (high blood pressure) in vegans is one third to one half that of meat eaters.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]17. The amount of veg protein fed to the US beef herd would feed almost the entire populations of India and China - two billion people.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]18. A vegan diet meets all the nutritional needs of infants and adolescents. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]19. 35% of the world's people can be fed on a meat-based diet. A plant diet could feed everyone.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]20. Animal faeces are a major cause of acid rain - in Holland and Belgium, the main cause.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]21. Deserts spread every year - by an area the size of England and Scotland. Livestock grazing is the main cause.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]22. Rain forests are still being felled to graze hamburger cattle. Going vegan saves one acre of forest every year.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]23. The world's 17 major fisheries are on the point of collapse because of over-fishing.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]24. On irrigated land, 1lb of beef uses 5,214 gallons.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]25. Disease, dirt and crowding, antibiotics and chemical growth enhancers - that's the five-month life of most pigs.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]26. 24% of dairy cows are pregnant when slaughtered - many nearing full term.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]27. Calves are taken from their mothers a day or two after birth. Males are usually killed.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]28. Amount of grain needed to end extreme hunger - 40 million tonnes. Amount of grain fed to animals in the West - 540 million tonnes.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]29. Most ducks are factory farmed in crowded sheds. They never see daylight or swim in water.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]30. The majority of calves, lambs and pigs are conscious when their throats are cut.[/FONT]
from: www.liberation-mag.org.uk/vegan