So why should you go veggie? Is it healthier?
Are there other benefits besides saving animal lives?
Animal
Suffering
On
modern farms, animals reared for human consumption are treated
as if they are emotionless meat machines that cannot feel pain.
This is what the farming industry wants you to believe so that
you will buy their products and put money in their pocket. But
it has lots of dirty secrets that it likes to keep hidden.
If animal
suffering isn't enough of a reason to make you go veggie, then
why not do it for your own health? Half of all adults in the
UK are overweight or obese and childhood obesity is on the increase.
This is due in large part to the amount of saturated fats found
in most foods containing animal ingredients. Saturated animal
fat not only piles on the pounds, but increases your risk of
the three big killers - heart disease, cancer and stroke, as
well as diabetes, and a host of other health problems.
Wanna know more?
Environmental
Impact
Going veggie doesn't just save the lives
of animals and improve your health, it is better for the environment
as well. Growing crops uses less water and is much less polluting
than rearing livestock for meat. Wanna know more?
World Food Supply
The human population
is on the increase and around the world millions of people
are still dying of hunger. Soon, world food production will
not be able to keep up with the demands of a modern western
meat-eating diet - which is now being copied by developing
countries. We can feed up to 10 times as many people by growing
crops to feed to them directly, rather than using the land
to graze livestock.