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Overview Know the Facts Learn CREDIBLE INFORMATION about BENEFITS of minimizing meat eating:
Listen to Health Experts !!!
"It is the position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada that appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases."
- American Dietetic Association (1) "If you step back and look at the data (on beef and cancer), the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero." - Walter Willett, M.D., Chairman of the Nutrition Department, Harvard (2) "Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
- Albert Einstein (3) "The fewer foods of animal origin people eat -- and the more plant-based foods -- the lower their risk of many of the big diseases that plague us here."
"It's NO SURPRISE that BREAST CANCER RATES IN CHINA ARE ONE-SIXTH WHAT THEY ARE HERE.
Prostate cancer appears less common.
The Chinese boast cholesterol levels just over half the American average. Heart disease, obesity, and diabetes are all much less common in China than the United States." - Senior Science Advisor to American Institute of Cancer Research (4 ) Beef contains significant quantities of the most toxic organic chemical known -- dioxin. Dioxin has been linked to cancer, Attention Deficit Disorder (hyperactivity in children), endometriosis, and chronic fatigue syndrome. A 1/4 lb. hamburger contains up to 100 picograms of dioxin. That is 300 times as much as the EPA says is "acceptable" for a daily dose for an adult!
- EPA Dioxin Reassessment (5) Reduce World Hunger "Six million children under age 5 die every year as a result of hunger, which translates to greater than:
"Much of the world's massive hunger problems could be solved by the reduction or elimination of meat-eating. A given quantity of grain eaten directly will feed 5 times as many people as it will if it is first fed to livestock and then is eaten indirectly by humans in the form of livestock products...." - M. E. Ensminger, Ph.D.,(7) Improve Our Natural Environment Feeding and fattening factory farm animals requires for meat consumption demands far more pesticide and fossil fuels than plant based meals. Meat requires 200 times more water than grain.
" Beef contains the highest concentration of herbicides of any food sold in America.
When consumed by cattle, the chemicals accumulate in their bodies and are passed onto consumers in finished cuts of beef." - National Research Council Board on Agriculture (8) REFERENCES: 1. Journal of American Dietetic Association, 2003.50142 2. Walter Willett, M.D., Chairman of the Nutrition Department, Harvard School of Public Health and Director of a study of 88,000 American nurses that analyzed the link between diet and colon cancer 3. Albert Einstein, p. 85 of The Food Revolution, Robbins 4. Commercial Appeal, Front Page, Nov 14, 2006 5.
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. former Senior Science Advisor to American Institute for Cancer
Research; Director,
Cornell-China-Oxford Project on Nutrition, Health and Environment, 1983-1990 6.
American
Institute of Cancer Research, Newsletter, 7.
State
of Food Insecurity in the World 2002.
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