Cows, calves, pigs, turkeys, ducks, and other animals suffer terribly on factory farms, too. Every time we sit down to eat, we choose compassion by choosing vegetarian foods. We're heart smart and cancer-unfriendly. In addition, a vegetarian diet helps prevent strokes, osteoporosis, kidney stones, many cancers, diabetes, hypoglycemia, kidney disease, peptic ulcers, hernias, obesity, gallstones, hypertension, asthma, impotence, and many other diseases. We're keeping our sex lives sizzling.
Vegetarians live longer, healthier lives.
Vegetarianism is an automatic cholesterol-cutter. The only foods that contain cholesterol are animal products, like meat and dairy. Vegetarians save an acre of trees each year. In North America, Great Britain, and throughout the world, forests are being destroyed to create pastures for livestock. Between 1960 and 1985 alone, nearly 40 percent of all Central American rain forests were destroyed to create cheap grazing land for cows later served on North American and European plates.