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Questions and Answers About Vegetarianism
"Nothing will benefit health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." - Albert Einstein
"The question is not, can they reason?, Nor, can they talk?, But can they suffer?" - Jeremy Bentham
"It may take a while, but there will probably come a time when we look back and say, 'Good Lord, do you believe that in the 20th century and early part of the 21st, people were still eating animals?" - Mary Tyler Moore
Amount of water needed to produce 1 pound of
wheat: 25 gallons
Amount of water needed to produce 1 pound of beef:
2,500 gallons
A 16-year study of 6000 vegetarians and 5000 non-vegetarians in the UK found that the vegetarians generally had lower LDL cholesterol levels and lower death rates for each of the mortality endpoints studied.
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The government agrees, it makes sense to eat organic foods to avoid certain chemicals. The Office of Children's Health Protection at the Environmental Protection Agency declares that "children are at greater risk of pesticide exposure than most adults," and goes on to warn that "pesticides may cause a range of harmful health effects," including cancer and injury to the nervous system, lungs and immune system.
"Organic farming became one of the fastest growing segments of U.S. agriculture during the 1990's, and producers, exporters, and retailers are still struggling to meet consumer demand for a wide range of organic products," the USDA said in the April issue of its "Agricultural Outlook" magazine.
Vegan foods with Highest Toxic Pesticide Residues
1. Fresh Peaches
2. Winter Squash
3. Apples
4. Pears
5. Fresh Spinach
6. Green Beans
7. Grapes
8. Celery
9. Lettuce
10. Soybeans
11. Potatoes
12. Tomatoes
13. Carrots
14. OrangesNote: Insufficient data for berries - Consumers Union
VEGETARIAN DIET MAY REDUCE HEART DISEASE AND CANCER
Vegetarians may have a lower risk of heart disease and bowel cancer than meat and fish eaters because of an acid found in fruit and vegetables, Scottish scientists said.
Like people taking low-dose aspirin to prevent heart attacks, vegetarians have lots of salicylic acid, aspirin's main anti-inflammatory component, in their blood.
Dr. John Paterson, a chemical pathologist at the Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary in Scotland believes salicylic acid could protect vegetarians from heart disease and cancer just as it protects people taking aspirin.
"Studies have shown that if you eat fruits and vegetables you have a lower risk of heart disease, strokes, and cancer. Part of the reason to explain that lower risk could be salicylic acid," Paterson said in a telephone interview.
NEW STUDY FINDS ORGANIC IS HEALTHIER
We've all suspected it. Now, a growing body of scientificevidence is indicating that organic food is healthier thanconventional produce. Researchers from the University ofCopenhagen recently reported that organically grown producehas higher levels of nutrients when compared withconventional produce.
Specifically, the organic crops had a higher concentrationof vitamins and far more secondary metabolites, which arenaturally occurring compounds that help immunize plants fromexternal attack. Some of these metabolites are thought tolower the risk of cancer and heart disease in humans.
U.S. FINALIZES NATIONAL ORGANIC FOOD STANDARDS Secretary Glickman Announces Standards for the Production, Handling, and Processing of Organically Grown Agricultural Products
At the EcoMall, while we don't believe you have to be a vegetarian to be an environmentalist, we do believe the two are related - - both encompass the ideals of efficiency and preserving our natural resources. Apart from the crucial considerations of health and natural goodness, and respect for animal life, meat eating is both inefficient and wasteful. Many pounds of cereal must be fed to livestock to produce one pound of meat on the table; the "wasted" food is used to supply the animal with energy. As protein converters, livestock are inefficient. An acre of cereal will produce five times more protein than an acre devoted to raising animals for human consumption. The figures for legumes - ten times more - and leafy vegetables - fifteen times - are even more startling. Some individual vegetables are yet more efficient. According to Gary Null, "The ideal of eating simply so that everyone may eat, often leads people to an animal-free diet. The logic? Land is capable of supplying food for nearly fourteen times as many people when it is used to grow food for people rather than crops to feed livestock. Cows, for instance, consume approximately sixteen pounds of grain to yield just one pound of flesh! In contrast, it has been estimated that our current yield of plant foods could nourish more than double the world's population, perhaps even turning the world hunger problem around, if meat-consuming societies would curtail their meat demand and free grazing land for the more efficient purpose of growing food crops." We hope that our Eco Restaurants directory will help people all around the country explore the delicious tastes and textures of vegetarian cuisine and appreciate the many benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle!
Got Milk?
A peer-reviewed medical study, in the International Journal of Health Services, suggests that the genetically engineered bovine growth hormone, rBGH, commonly administered to dairy cows to boost milk production, may promote cancer of the breast and colon. This product has been in widespread use on dairy farms in the U.S., and consumers have been drinking milk from these cows - largely unknowingly - for several years. In addition to the cancer risk, injecting rBGH reduces a cows life expectancy and increases her risk of disease, leading to increased use of anti-biotic injections, thus leaving residues of these drugs in the milk. The milk produced by the sick cows is less healthful because mastisis results in increased secretion of white blood cells, or 'pus', into the milk."According to a recent survey, 60 percent of Americans are interested in buying organic products, which in their eyes are better for the environment and also healthier because they are not made with synthetic substances."
- New York Times
OPRAH WINFREY: MAD COW DISEASE The Shocking Transcript of the Controversial Oprah Winfrey Television Show
Quotes From Famous People
"Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind."- Albert Einstein
"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."- Leonardo Da Vinci
"I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we (humans) do."- Cesar Chavez
"If we so easily take the lives of animals who are only a few evolutionary steps from us, what is to prevent us from doing the same to humans."- Pete Singer
"I believe that every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his highest poetic faculties in the best condition has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food...no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals."- Henry David Thoreau
"My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency and I was frequently chid for my singularity."- Ben Franklin
"He who does not value life does not deserve it."- Leonardo Da Vinci
"A high animal protein diet, especially an excess of meat, is definitely detrimental to the health and may be a contribution or a direct cause of the development of many of our most common diseases, as shown by recent massive research...The metabolism of proteins consumed in excess of the actual need leaves toxic residues of metabolic wastes in tissues, causes autotoxemia, overacidity, and nutritional deficiencies, accumulation of uric acid and purines in the tissues and intestinal putrefaction, and contributes to the development of many of our most common and serious diseases, such as arthritis, kidney damage, schizophrenia, osteoporosis, artherosclerosis, heart disease and cancer. A high protein diet also causes premature aging and lowers life expectancy."- Dr. Paavo Airola, N.D.
"Our nation now feeds about 3.5 billion food animals yearly, and 70 to 80% of these animals receive drugs in their feed. In addition to adding drugs to feed, science now has given us implantable drugs, removable drugs, and time-release drugs for animals..."- Alexander M. Schmidt, M.D.Commissioner of Food & DrugsSenate Subcommittee Hearing, 1975 -
"I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that the reformation must be worked."- Thomas Jefferson
"The inhabitants of Ecuador and the primitive Hunzas in India are either complete or almost complete vegetarians...they eat a diet which is high in carbohydrates and low in protein and their strength is phenomenal."- Dr. Paazo Airola, N.D.
"I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies."- George Bernard Shaw
"For I tell you truly, he who kills, kills himself, and whosoever eats the flesh of slain beasts eats the body of death."- Jesus ChristThe Essene Gospel of Peace(taken from the Dead Sea Scrolls)
"To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body."- Mahatma Ghandi
"It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth...or is made weak."- Romans 14:21
"Do not make your stomachs graves for animals."- Mohammed
"He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape."- Buddha
"Purity of heart...self-restraint...harmlessness...freedom from a desire to injure others...(these) are his who is born to godlike endowments."- KrishnaBhagavad-Gita 16:1
"And God said, 'Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.'- Genesis 1:29
"The moral evils of a flesh diet are not less marked than are the physical ills. Flesh food is injurious to health and whatever affects the body has a corresponding effect on the mind and soul."- Ellen G. White
"Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram..."- John Muir
"Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's..."- Armand Hammer
"Meat is not essential for endurance. This has been demonstrated by whole races (of people)..."- Dr. E. V. McCollumProf., John Hopkins Univ.(father of Vitamins A & D)
"It is most unlikely that a protein deficiency will result in apparently healthy adults (who are) on a diet in which cereals and vegetables supply enough calories."- Mark HegstedChief AdministratorHuman Nutrition Center
"All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap."- William Blake
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- American Vegan Society
- Christian Vegetarian Association
- EarthSave International
- Institute for the Development of Earth Awareness
- International Vegetarian Union
- Jewish Vegetarians of North America
- Meat Free Zone
- New York Coalition for Healthy School Lunches
- Vegan Outreach
- The Vegetarian Society (UK)
- Vegetarians International Voice for Animals
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