why vegan

 

A vegan lifestyle is filled with variety and countless choices of delicious food.  It only excludes the use of animal products.  In terms of diet this means no meat, fish, dairy, eggs, honey or other animal derived ingredients.  Other items avoided by vegans include fur, leather and wool as well as cosmetics personal care or household products that have been tested on animals, or that contain animal ingredients.

The many benefits of becoming vegan, include greater health, saving the lives of many animals and being much more environmentally friendly.  It really is the livestyle choice to make.

 

The Animals Will be Happier

56 BILLION animals are killed for human consumption each year, not including trillions of water animals.  They live lives of misery.  To learn more about animals reared for food production, click on the headings below: 

Cows              Sheep                  

Pigs                Chickens 
       
Dairy               Laying Hens     

Eggs               Fish

 

  

You'll be Healthier

A well balanced plant based diet is the healthiest of all, is suitable for all ages and can significantly lower health risks, such as heart disease, strokes, cancer, diabetes, obesity and high cholesterol.  The following two websites give further information relating to health and the vegan diet: 

PCRM    

Nutrition Ecology


 
 

 

The Earth Will Be Cooler!

The best thing you can do to help the environment and save water is to adopt a plant based diet.  Humans use of 'livestock' is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than all transport put together and is a major source of water and land degradation.  The following two slideshows from planetdiet.org give some important facts about the environment: 

Climate Change and Livestock Farming  

Save the Planet