Vegetarianism in a Nutshell

For Animals • For the Hungry • For the Earth • For Your Health

Why Adopt a Vegan Diet?

For Animals • For the HungryFor the Earth • For Your Health

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” —Socrates

Health

Eating for Life

Health

Meat Causes Heart Disease

“Vegetarians have the best diet. … [They] have a fraction of our heart attack rate, and they have only 40 percent of our cancer rate.” —William Castelli, M.D., director of the Framingham Heart Study, the longest-running clinical study in medical history

A Vegetarian Diet Prevents Cancer

The vast majority of all cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and other forms of degenerative illness can be prevented simply by adopting a plant-based diet.”—Dr. T. Colin Campbell, director, The China Study

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Got Cancer?In nine separate studies, the strongest and most consistent dietary factor linked with prostate cancer was high consumption of milk or dairy products. —Dr. Walter Willett, chair,

Department of Nutrition,

Harvard School of

Public Health

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Got Zits?

In a 2005 study of 47,000 high school girls, Harvard researchers found a very strong correlation between the amount of cow’s milk consumed and severe acne.

The Obesity Epidemic

Meat-eaters have three times the obesity rate of

vegetarians and nine times the obesity

rate of vegans.

Vegetarians: Healthy and Sexy

Since I’ve gone vegetarian, my body has never felt better and my taste buds have been opened up to a whole new world. It’s one of the most rewarding choices I’ve ever made .…—Alicia Silverstone

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Fish Flesh: Poisoning Your Brain

The mercury and PCBs found in fish flesh cause brain damage and cancer.

Environment

Environment

Think You Can Be a Meat-Eating Environmentalist?

To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn’t happen to give to charity.”—Howard Lyman

Think again!

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Environment

Commercial fishing and fish farms are destroying the oceans.

Human Rights

Eating meat steals food from the hungry.

Human Rights

Animal Welfare

‘Meet Your Meat’

Chicken Factory Farms

Pig Factory Farms

Trucked to the Slaughterhouse

According to the meat industry’s own statistics, more than 1 million pigs and tens of millions of chickens and turkeys

die each year during transport to the slaughterhouse alone.

‘A Hunk of Veal in Every Glass of

Milk’

Where Dairy Products Come From

The Egg Industry: The Worst of the Worst!

According to the United Egg Producers, 98% of hens used by the egg industry are confined to battery cages.

Commercial Fishing

‘Aquaculture’: Fish Factory Farms

Animal Rights: Extending Our Circle of Compassion

They feel pain.

Animal Rights

“There will be no justice as long as man will

stand with a knife or with a gun and

destroy those who are weaker than he is.” —Isaac Bashevis Singer

Animal Rights

“The moral arc of the

universe is long, but it

bends toward

justice.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

Animal Rights

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100 Years Ago: 0

No. of Child Protection Laws in the U.S. 100 Years Ago: 0

Animal Rights

Slavery Is Abolished: 1865(13th Amendment)

Women Get the Right to Vote: 1920(19th Amendment)

Animal Rights

Every time you eat, you have a choice.

By choosing vegetarian meals, you are helping fight cruelty to animals, environmental degradation, and global hunger.

By choosing vegetarian meals, you are making the world a kinder, more just place.

Animal Rights

Your Choice

So What Do Vegetarians Eat?

Visit VegCooking.com for thousands of easy, delicious recipes and product and restaurant recommendations.

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Thank You for Coming!

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