You’re waking up in the morning on an average school day. You head towards the kitchen grabbing your breakfast, skim milk and lucky charms, yum. What if I told you that the colored marshmallows in your lucky charms are made of leftover animal bones, skin, cartilage, beaver anal glands and even coal tar. Or your skim milk contains an unsettling amount of cow pus and bacteria, really appetizing, right? Our planet is dying, 40% of Americans are obese, nine billion chickens are being killed in the US every year and we are spending fives times more than our defense budget on healthcare. If only there was one simple way we could solve all of these world issues. Well, I’m here to tell you that in fact, there is a way. Eating a plant-based vegan diet is able to save the planet, save our health and save our animals by drastically decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, saving water, not clogging our arteries with cholesterol, decrease chances of heart disease and not having to kill innocent beings to consume at our dinner table.
Do you know where 51% of green house gas emission comes from? Not cars, not burning of fossil fuels, but animal farts and manure. Surprisingly, cows produce methane in their digestive cycle. Methane is thirty times more powerful than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere. Methane is also found in chicken and pig manure. Although there are many ways to control this methane such as changing the feed or even killing the bacteria inside the stomach, this would demand even more chemicals in the animal’s body. The real solution is to switch to the vegan lifestyle. 150 acres of the amazon forest is getting cut down every minute of the day! 90% of that is to either plant food for livestock and cattle or to place more animals there. A substantial amount of water is required for cows. In fact, one is able to drink up to 250 litres of water a day living in a warm environment. You might be thinking, what can one person become vegan actually achieve? Well, every day on a vegan lifestyle you save 1100 gallons of water, 45 pounds of grain, 30 square feet of forested land, 20 pounds of carbon dioxide and 1 animals life.
Despite the countless benefits of a vegan lifestyle, only 7% of US citizens are vegan. Adopting the vegan lifestyle may still be out of the question for you as you’re probably concerned about protein. Unprocessed Plant-based foods are all low in calories, and all contain protein. It isn’t possible to be protein deficient without being calorie deficient. Another downside to consuming animal products is that they are very high in fat which leads to 40% of American adults and 1 out of 5 American children being obese. Cholesterol levels are higher than ever, Heart disease is at its best. Every human and animal have a cholesterol lining their veins. Dietary cholesterol is unnecessary and only found in animal products. A vegan blood test is 100% healthy and not deficient in most cases.
Let me blow your mind, we are herbivores. Our physiological features match those of a herbivore. It’s very important for a given animal to eat what they are physiologically and anatomically designed to eat, to improve the chances of survival and health. By connecting the dots, you notice that a vegan lifestyle is what you need to adopt in order to have optimal health. Over 9 billion chickens are killed for food in the US only, some people refer to this as "animal holocaust". The USDA doesn't have a definition for "free-range". Animals are living creatures too and should be able to live their lives. Milk is for baby calfs to double their weight in 6 months, today most calfs don't even taste the milk of their mothers as they're separated at birth.
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