With every passing day, your life - and the lives of others - are affected by your food choices. Eating your veggies is good for your health, good for the environment, and, of course, good for animals! Take a look at the facts behind our food habits:
- Animals in factory farms have little, or no, legal protection from cruelty. This same cruelty would be illegal if it were inflicted on dogs or cats. Yet farmed animals are just as intelligent and capable of feeling pain as the animals we cherish as companions.
- Eating animal-based foods impairs the heart's ability to do its job. A major study a few years ago reconfirmed that those who ate the most meat were also at the greatest risk for heart disease.
- Raising animals for food damages the environment more than nearly anything else we do. Environmental organizations agree: eating meat wastes natural resources, pollutes the water, destroys topsoil, and contaminates the air for everyone.
Please make a difference today by pledging to be vegetarian for one month. And if you're already vegetarian, you can help by asking your friends and family to sign the pledge to be veg!
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9:55 am PDT, Sep 23,Trudi Radabaugh, South Carolina
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8:55 am PDT, Sep 23,Bruce Williams, California
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7:41 am PDT, Sep 23,Gloria Diggle, Florida
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5:17 am PDT, Sep 22,Michael Rivera, New Jersey
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5:44 pm PDT, Sep 21,Cathy Crum, California
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2:59 pm PDT, Sep 21,Name not displayed, California
I have been Vegan for 5 years, and a Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian for 4 years before that.
I used to be a BIG girl, but going Vegan allowed my body to shed the extra weight I was lugging around.
Plus, as a Vegan, you don't have to worry about CHOLESTEROL (unless you naturally produce extremely high levels all by yourself).
Being Vegetarian is the easiest and cheapest way (free) to be magnanimously philanthropic; it is good for you, good for the planet, and good for the animals.
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7:17 am PDT, Sep 21,David N Moore, Connecticut
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11:23 pm PDT, Sep 20,Margery Coffey, Nebraska
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5:24 pm PDT, Sep 20,Marilyn Mick, Texas
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5:08 am PDT, Sep 19,Eli Is Here, Pennsylvania
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1:14 am PDT, Sep 19,Name not displayed, California
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12:08 am PDT, Sep 19,Karen Burke, Oregon
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7:20 pm PDT, Sep 18,Ron Avila, California
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5:01 pm PDT, Sep 18,Jake Tinkham, New Hampshire
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6:15 am PDT, Sep 18,NYREE COOKE, Virginia
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12:28 pm PDT, Sep 17,Melanie DePaulis, Virginia
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9:56 am PDT, Sep 17,Yulia Volkova, Russian Federation
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4:56 am PDT, Sep 17,Kostyleva Nadezhda, Russian Federation
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9:08 pm PDT, Sep 15,Karen Sheaffer, Pennsylvania
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9:36 am PDT, Sep 14,Valerie Wehmueller, Missouri
Our family is going to start gradually, but we ARE totally commited to becoming vegetarians for life, not just one month, for the animals, for our health, and for the environment. Think about how many starving people could be fed with all the grain products we're feeding to our "livestock"....cattle for one, are supposed to eat grass.At least try it for a month, and see how good you feel,physically and emotionally.
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6:19 am PDT, Sep 13,Salvatore Cento, New York
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11:34 pm PDT, Sep 12,Anna Perry, Michigan
i've been a vegan for little over a year. Before that i was a vegetarian for two years. It was for several reasons i gave up meat, unfortunately animal rights was not my main objective. I was very unhealthy and as I'm utterly bored with exercise, I became a vegetarian. I didn't feel much different. a few years later, as i was becoming slowly greener i discovered how much waste creating meat was. As it read, it takes 50 lbs of grain to produce 1 lb of meat. CO2 from grazing cows has actually formed a cloud over Germany, and "free range" and "all natural" mean little, and that the U.S. has 60% higher puss levels in their cheese and milk than european regulations. I thought it would be benifical if i report to everyone, that while being a vegetarian is much better for yourself and the environment, being vegan can do a world of difference. I used to have sinus problems, for the most part they are gone. I used to weigh way too much, but without exercise, and only becoming vegan, i've lost 70 lbs. It has not deprived me. I can still eat pizza, i use soy cheese of course, but i make the best pizza ever. Even on my 1 yr of being a vegan i tried a regular pizza and decided i liked the soy better. There are nearly all dairy products avaliable in soy. There is rice milk, soy milk, almond milk, and coconut milk. I still eat ceral, and icecream, and have sandwhiches with veganaise. There are hard cheeses, soft cheeses, cream cheese, sour cream, milks, mayonaise and meats made out of soy. Soy hot dogs, soy bacon, soy ham, and soy sausage taste just like their pork counterparts. true, you may never find a soy beef tasting just like greasy, savory meat, but after long enough that same savory meat smells foul and i'm certain that every vegan who has taken a similar path as i have will agree that physically, being vegetarian feels about the same as it does being a meat eater. However, once that final threshold is passed, one feels beyond anything ever felt before. I feel clean, i feel pure, i feel healthier and happier than i have in my whole life. I don't get sick as much, i'm rarely lathargic and i feel better than i ever have in my whole life. So thank you, to everyone willing to try to go meatless. But, if you want to feel considerably different try three months as a vegan. (I say three because with my experiences of drasically changing diets that is what it takes for my body to really start feeling a difference.) But, on a last note, i want to make clear my opinions, I feel that humans in general should not be forced to quit eating meat. I believe if one chooses to eat meat, they must be able to do the following things: 1) see their meal killed, maybe even butchered. If you can't do that, than you ought not be eating meat. 2) anyone choosing to eat meat should eat the recommended amount daily, 1-2 servings a day of 1-2oz. -too many people eat meat as the main part of the meal, for all three meals. 3) (most importantly) everyone who chooses to eat meat should eat organic meat, towards which they have made the effort to visit the farm on which the meat was raised and the facility in which it will be slaughtered. In my opinion, humans became so intellectual by being omnivores, so i do not wish to take that from anyone who decides to embrace it. I feel lucky that in this point in time there is soy to help vegans meet their nutritional needs. But, I do not condemn people who eat meat, I only wish everyone was more educated BECAUSE: The cruelty is a product of mass producing meat facilities. Farms in which still function like an old fashion idea of a farm are, in my opinion, worth supporting. Corporate farms do not care at all about their animals. they are only meat, but after actually seeing it, i always tell my family, i do not have strong will power to be a vegan, i have just seen too much. It is horrifying, so i only allow my family to eat organic meats, from a local farm, and i choose not to because i cannot explain how much better i feel as a vegan. So my advise is that if you cannot sign this pledge, think, at least, about what the farm looks like from which your meat came. and watch the first 30 seconds of "meet your meat" by peta, and you will get a good idea od what i'm i talking about. I hope this has helped someone. Take care.
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8:27 am PDT, Sep 11,Ekaterina Vladimirskaya, Russian Federation
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11:32 pm PDT, Sep 6,Debra Bean, Maryland
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7:22 pm PDT, Sep 6,Cindy Alderman, North Carolina
One year ago I became a vegetarian. Best thing I ever did.
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11:36 am PDT, Sep 6,Kimberly Lewis, Oregon
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9:10 am PDT, Sep 5,Ruchi Gupta, India
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1:59 am PDT, Sep 5,Arielle Carroll, Estonia
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11:07 am PDT, Sep 1,Julie Stradel-Graf, Minnesota
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2:35 pm PDT, Aug 28,Kimberly Wyke, Maine
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9:02 am PDT, Aug 26,Yves TOSCANO, France
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9:01 am PDT, Aug 26,Marie ISAIA, France
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2:13 am PDT, Aug 26,Susan Furr, North Carolina
I want so much to accomplish being a vegetarian. The cruelty to animals is so horrific and I want to show my support by never eating meat again. The videos I've seen lately of the cruel inhumane slaughtering of cows and their calves have led me to this point. I cannot bear to be a participant by eating their meat, which would make me an accomplice to this barbaric slaughter.
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8:19 pm PDT, Aug 23,Eve Mendoza, California
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5:27 pm PDT, Aug 23,Melissa Elder, Pennsylvania
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4:06 pm PDT, Aug 23,Deborah Debandi, North Carolina
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1:24 pm PDT, Aug 23,Cheryl Oligney, Minnesota
I'm getting there,a vegan that is! By next week I should be all the way there. I know I will start to feel better mentally. I'm sure my body will enjoy it also!
