Probably, you have heard those most misleading marketing slogans of the milk industry praising the benefit of milk such as “You need milk for strong bones” or “Dairy, it does the body good”. Nothing could be more far from the truth. Humans were not created to digest the milk of cows, sheeps or goats.
I love to read stories such like this one: Patrik Baboumian, probably the strongest man on earth, decided to become vegetarian in 2005 before he finally went vegan in 2011. In fact, he assumed that his strength might suffer after becoming vegetarian in 2005. However, being loyal to his philosophy that his strength is his compassion, especially for animals, made him take this decision.
So many people hesitate to go vegan because they believe that giving up on meat would mean a sacrifice they are not willing to make. However, they don’t seem to know that the health benefits of avoiding meat are awesome. In fact, there are 7 things that will happen when someone stops eating meat. People whose diet is animal-based are very probably never going to benefit from these 7 things.
Now, this is breaking news for all vegan activists who are accountable for this unprecedented breakthrough and very probably historic victory beyond comparison. The US largest grocer, Kroger, has officially decided to stop battery cages and to make cage-free hens its only source of eggs by 2025.
When I was a child I was always impressed by Mount Rushmore. This famous national monument located in the Midwest shows the carvings of the former presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. However, it never occured to me that there could also be such a thing like a “Vegan Mount Rushmore”.
Some people think they cannot live without meat because it gives them strength and more power for their daily activities. Of course, they always keep saying they consume meat because of its protein it provides although there are so many other sources they could get the protein from. However, some people even think that vegans are weak forgetting that it takes much more power to stand in for what you believe than for anything else in life.
Have you ever given a second thought that the world’s drought is by far due to a culture whose diet is mainly animal-based? If you compared the consumption of water of the entire world population, you would not even get close to the consumption of water of cows. Putting this into numbers, this means that 7 billion people consume 5.2 billion gallons of water and 21 billion pounds of food in comparison to 45 billion gallons of water and 135 billion pounds of food that are consumed by cows.
Considering the population is expected to increase up to 9.1 billion people at the end of 2050, the United Nations strongly advocates for a change of diet habits. In fact, it regards a total shift towards veganism to be crucial to stop starvation and a disastrous impact on the climate. However, there is another crictical issue coming along with an animal-based diet which is water since factory farming is being held responsible for using 70 percent of the world’s freshwater consumption.
Anytime a celebrity advocates for going vegan the vegan lifestyle seems to get a new momentum. This was not different after the former two-term and probably one of the most popular president of the United States had adopted a vegan diet. Bill Clinton realized that he had to do something to stay healthy after he had to undergo a quadruple bypass surgery in 2004.
While I was doing some research about Russell Simmons it struck me that his approach writing his vegan book was very interesting. He made some inquiries about the diet habits of African people and arrived to the conclusion that those people usually ate beans and okra. In fact, animal products were no part of their diet.