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HEALTHIER FOOD CHOICES: Did you know…

Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.

~C. Everett Koop~ Former U.S. Surgeon General 

the vast majority, perhaps 80%-90%, of all cancers, cardiovascular and other forms of degenerative illness can be prevented, at least to a very old age, simply by adopting a plant-based diet. No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein.

~T. Colin Campbell, PhD~ Director of the China Study, the most comprehensive large study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and disease.

There is virtually no evidence that drinking two or three glasses of milk a day reduces the chances of breaking a bone.

~Walter C. Willet, MD~ Chairman of the Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health

There’s no reason to drink cow’s milk at any time in your life. It was designed for calves, it was not designed for humans, and we should all stop drinking it today."

~Dr. Frank Oski, former director of pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University~

Another good reason to get your nutrition from plant sources is that animals tend to concentrate pesticides and other chemicals in their meat and milk... Plant foods have much less contamination...

~Benjamin Spock, MD~ Pediatrician and author of all time best selling books on health care for children

It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.
 
~American Dietetic Association~

COMPASSIONATE FOOD CHOICES: Did you know…

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery.

~Charles Darwin~ Naturalist, and author of Origin of the Species

The vast majority of farm animals today are raised in conditions which would shock our consciences. Most people assume that there are laws which protect farm animals from egregious abuse. But what few laws exist are almost never enforced. Consequently, since profit is deemed more important than comfort for the animal, farm animals are routinely and patently abused and neglected.

~John Robbins~ Author of Diet for a New America, and Food Revolution

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.

 ~Paul and Linda McCartney~

EARTH-FRIENDLY FOOD CHOICES: Did you know…

More global warming greenhouse gasses are produced by livestock operations than by all forms of transportation combined.      

~United Nations Report: Livestock's Long Shadow~ 11/9/06

We will find that we can no longer subsidize or ignore the costs of mass-producing cattle, poultry, pigs, sheep, and fish to feed our growing population. These costs include hugely inefficient use of fresh water and land, heavy pollution from livestock feces, rising rates of heart disease and other degenerative illnesses, and spreading destruction of forests on which much of the planet’s life depends.  

~Time Magazine~ 11/8/99

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

~Albert Einstein~  Physicist, Nobel Prize 1921