10 Main Reasons for going VEGAN
# 1) Animal products are unnecessary.
# 2) What you eat is a learned habit.
# 3) Much healthier to avoid meat and dairy products.
# 4) Much more environmentally friendly to eat a vegan diet.
# 5) Feed more people on a plant diet than animal based one.
# 6) Using animals is incredibly cruel. Why force any pain?
# 7) Religion/ spiritual reasons "Thou shalt not kill."
# 8) Saves money....
# 9) Reduces National debt.
# 10) Vegan food tastes great!
"I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives."
-Dean Ornish, MD
"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
"Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases."
-Dr.Campbell
"The world's environment can no longer handle beef."
-Jeremy Rifkin of Beyond Beef
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A Few Thoughts
1) I'd prioritize them a bit differently.
2) #9: Reduces National Debt ? Yes, the budget deficit but not the trade deficit. We're a huge dead (and live) animal exporter. Lots of profits there, unfortunately.