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 VEGETARIAN

EATINGHealthy, Humane and Sustainable 

A plant-based diet is a simple, yet powerulway to improve your health and protect the

environment and animals.

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Cows, pigs and chickens are individuals with emotionaland social lives as complex as those o our beloveddogs and cats. By going vegetarian, we expand our

circles o compassion to include all animals.

Reduce Suering

Animals on modern arms spend their entire livesin cages or stalls too small or them to turn around,comortably lie down or extend their limbs or wings.Pigs and cattle are castrated and tail-dockedwithout anesthesia. At slaughter, many improperlystunned animals are skinned, scalded and butch-ered while conscious. Each person who adopts avegetarian diet spares more than 50 animals romsuering and death each year.

Kindness and compassion

toward all living things is the

mark o a civilized society.— Cesar Chavez 

PROTECTING

 ANIMALS

WHAT YOU CAN DOHere are tips to get you started: 

Try Vegetarian Foods

There are vegetarian versions ohamburgers, hot dogs, milk, yogurtand more, with the tastes you enjoybut without all o the cholesterol andsaturated at. Find them in the healthood sections o your local grocers.

Go Vegetarian One Day a Week 

Gradually try new oods and newrecipes. Add vegetarian days untilyou are ully vegetarian.

Dine Out Vegetarian

Many ethnic restaurants oersavory vegetarian dishes. VisitVegGuide.org  or vegetarian-riendly establishments in your area.

Learn More

Visit ChooseVeg.com or moreinormation and to order your reeVegetarian Starter Kit , flled withdelicious recipes and tips ortransitioning to a vegetarian diet. 

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 A SUSTAINABLE TABLE 

Environmentalists increasingly recognize the “green”benefts o a vegetarian diet, such as conservingthe earth’s resources and reducing global warmingand pollution.

Reduce Global Warming

A recent United Nations report concluded that animalagribusiness causes more global warming than allorms o transportation combined! It does so in anumber o ways: billions o armed animals emitgreenhouse gases rom manure and intestinal gas;deorestation to clear land or animal eed cropsdepopulates trees that would otherwise absorbCO2; massive amounts o energy are used toproduce eed crops, heat and cool animal housing,and transport, process and rerigerate meat.

Use Natural Resources Efciently

Most corn and soy grown in the world eeds armed

animals, not humans. A plant-based diet directlyaddresses global hunger by making more caloriesavailable to people; a Cornell study ound that theU.S. could eed 800 million people with grain thatlivestock eat. On average, 6 pounds o plantprotein are required to produce only 1 pound oanimal protein.

EATING FOR 

Health 

The American Dietetic Association states thatvegetarian diets are appropriate or all stages o lie

and are associated with a number o health advantages.

Lose Weight

A diet high in ruits, vegetables, whole grains and beansis optimal to attain and maintain a healthy weight.

Reduce Risk o Cancer

Vegetarians have lower rates o many types ocancer, including prostate and colorectal cancers.

Reduce Risk o Heart Disease

Heart disease claims nearly one out o every twolives in the U.S. Plant oods have no cholesteroland are low in saturated at, two major contributorsto heart disease.

Reduce Risk o Diabetes

A study o 25,000 Seventh Day Adventists oundvegetarians to have signifcantly lower rates o diabetes.

Reduce Exposure to Toxins

Much seaood contains mercury, PCBs and dioxins.The Environmental Protection Agency estimates thatover 600,000 children are born each year at risk orlower intelligence and learning disabilities rom

exposure to mercury in their mothers’ diets.

I now consider veganism to be the ideal diet.

A vegan diet — particularly one that is low in at 

— will substantially reduce disease risks.— T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., Proessor o Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University 

Reduce Pollution

Factory arms produce 1.4 billion tons o manureevery year, which pollute our air with ammonia andmethane gases. Manure also seeps into the watersupply, killing fsh and contaminating drinking water.

Restore Biodiversity

A recent report on the world’s seaood stocks oundthat 63 percent o species caught or seaood arebelow healthy levels due to overfshing.

Nothing will 

beneft human

health and 

increase chances

or survival o lie on Earth

as much as the

evolution to a

vegetarian diet.— Albert Einstein