Overview

Know the Facts

Learn CREDIBLE INFORMATION about BENEFITS of minimizing meat eating: 

  •  Improve Your Health
  •  Reduce Cancer & Heart Risks
  •  Reduce World Hunger
  •  Improve Our Natural Environment
  •  Reduce Animal Suffering
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:
6,000 per day;   1 child every 6 seconds !!!
 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (6)
"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)
 
Meat contains 14 times as much pesticide residue as plant foods; dairy products, more than five times as many. 
  -  The Washington Post (9)
 
As of 2004, it is illegal for women in Greenland to breastfeed their children due to high levels of chemical contaminants that accumulate from their
            - Los Angeles Times (10)

How many animals killed in U.S. in 1999?  

 Chicken  8.7 BILLION  Pigs  101 Million  Turkey  265 Million  Cattle (Cows)  36   Million

  USDA Livestock Slaughter Report, 3, 2000

"Yet saddest of all fates, surely, is to have lost that sense of the holiness of life altogether; that we commit the blasphemy of bringing thousands of lives to a cruel and terrifying death or of making those lives a living death  -- and feel nothing."  
              - Reverend John Austin Baker, Bishop of Salisbury, England

"Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace."  
           - Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Laureate

SHARE this INFORMATION with people you CARE about !

Help people make informed decisions about their diet !

Help PROTECT their Health and our Environment. 

Reducing meat consumption is in all our best interests.

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REFERENCES:

    2. Journal of American Dietetic Association, 2003.50142 
    3. 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 
    4.  Albert Einstein, p. 85 of The Food Revolution, Robbins 
    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
    - from Health Magazine, May/June, 1996, pages 84-86     
    6. 1994 EPA Dioxin Reassessment, Dying From Dioxin by Lois Gibbs 
    7. State of Food Insecurity in the World 2002.  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
    www.careusa.org/campaigns/world-hunger/facts.asp 
    8. M. E. Ensminger, Ph.D., internationally recognized animal agriculture specialist, former Department of Animal Science Chairman at Washington State University 
    9. National Research Council,
    Board on Agriculture, Alternative Agriculture, 44; National Research Council, Board on Agriculture,
    Regulating Pesticides in Food, 78, Table 3-20 to 22.     
    10. (3) McCarthy, Colman, "Dioxin Burgers," The Washington Post , Sept. 24, 1994. 
    11. Los Angeles Times, Jan. 13, 2004, p. A1
 

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