“Sunlight is essential to the body's ability to absorb calcium from the food you are eating. Make sure you receive adequate vitamin D every day through sunlight. About fifteen to twenty minutes of sun on the face and hands is usually enough for most of us.” EnoughBodyHandsFacesAbilitySunMinutesEssentialsEatingTwentiesSunlightFifteenAdequateVitaminsCalciumVitamin D Author:Sharon Gannon
“The best we can do is strive to minimize the amount of harm we cause by living. We need to eat in order to live, and there is no moral or ethical code that dictates that we should refrain from eating and allow ourselves to die for some higher purpose.” NeedsShouldPurposeOrderDiesCausesCan DoMoralAmountHigherEatingStriveHarmCodeEthicalRefrainHigher Purpose Author:Sharon Gannon
“As humans, we do get to choose what we eat, and when we choose to eat a plant, we are eating (i.e., harming) just that plant, plus indirectly whatever nutrients that plant consumed over its lifetime (and we are also harming whatever beings may have been living on that plant or who were injured or killed in the harvesting process). But when we eat an animal, we are eating not just that animal, but also indirectly all of the plants and other beings that that animal ate over its lifetime - those plants became the flesh that we eat.” HumansMayHas BeensProcessAnimalEatingPlantLifetimeFleshOver ItPlusConsumedInjuredLiving OnNutrients Author:Sharon Gannon
“Eating vegetables, fruits and grains rarely causes total destruction of the plant or tree on which the food grew; after harvesting, seeds remain to be replanted the next season. But this certainly does not happen when an animal is slaughtered - death is final; that animal will not reproduce again!” DoeHappensNextCausesAnimalTreeGrewEatingDestructionSeasonsPlantFruitFinalsSeedsVegetablesGrain Author:Sharon Gannon
“If we want to consider the sanctity of life in deciding what to eat, the choice is clear. Eating a plant based diet causes less harm, to ourselves, to the other animals, to the planet.” IfsWantChoicesCausesAnimalClearPlanetsEatingPlantHarmDietsSanctityPlant Based DietSanctity Of Life Author:Sharon Gannon
“Because we lack sharp claws, aren't very fast on our feet, and aren't exactly endowed with lightning reflexes, it would be very difficult if not impossible for us to run down an animal, catch it with our bare hands, and tear through its fur and skin in order to eat it. Biologically, we are designed to be frugivorous herbivores eating mainly fruits, seeds, roots, and leaves.” IfsHandsWould BeRunningOrderDifficultAnimalImpossibleFeetTearsEatingRootsSkinsFruitSeedsLightningFurClawsReflexes Author:Sharon Gannon
“We have been conditioned, taught, and coerced by the agents of our culture (parents, grandparents, advertisers, food critic, etc.) to eat the flesh and drink the milk of other animals. Because of this conditioning, which has occurred over a long period of time (thousands of years), we have developed addictive eating habits and blinded ourselves to the facts of our biological system and its true needs.” NeedsYearsLongHas BeensFactsCultureParentAnimalTaughtHabitPeriodsDrinkEatingCriticsFleshAgentsEtcMilkGrandparentConditioningBlindedLong Periods Of TimeAdvertisersEating Habits Author:Sharon Gannon
“In fact, we would know ourselves that we are not meant to be meat eaters, and we would not have allowed ourselves to become conditioned to meat eating in the first place, if the effects of meat eating were felt right away. But since heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc. usually take many years to develop, we are able to separate them from their cause (or contributing factors) and go on happily eating an animal-based diet.” IfsKnowsYearsFirstsHeartFactsAbleFeltCausesAnimalEffectsGoes OnDiseaseEatingCancerFactorsMeatDietsEtcMeant To BeContributingDiabetesHeart DiseaseMeat EatingOsteoporosis Author:Sharon Gannon
“Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.” HumansProblemBigsGrowthGreaterEatingPopulationMeatOverconsumptionPopulation GrowthHuman PopulationMeat Eating Author:Sharon Gannon
“The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems. Our planet simply cannot sustain the greed of billions of human beings who are eating other animals.” HumansForceHuman BeingsAnimalPlanetsEatingGreedBillionsDestructiveFragileOur PlanetEcosystems Author:Sharon Gannon
“It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions. The animals in the factory farms may have been meat-eating human beings in a previous birth; we don't know, and it is not our place to judge.” KnowsHumansMayHas BeensActionPastSufferingEnjoyHuman BeingsAnimalResultsJudgingBirthEatingDirectMeatFarmsFactoriesEnjoy LifeMeat Eating Author:Sharon Gannon
“Some meat eaters defend meat eating by pointing out that it is natural: in the wild, animals eat one another. The animals that end up on our breakfast, lunch, and dinner plates, however, aren't those who normally eat other animals. The animals we exploit for food are not the lions and tigers and bears of the world. For the most part, we eat the gentle vegan animals. However, on today's farms, we actually force them to become meat eaters by making them eat feed containing the rendered remains of other animals, which they would never eat in the wild.” WorldEndsTodayForceNaturalAnimalBearsEatingRemainsDinnerGentleMeatBreakfastFarmsLionsLunchVeganPlatesTigersPointingExploitsContainingWild AnimalMeat EatingDinner Plates Author:Sharon Gannon
“Lions and other carnivorous animals do a lot of things besides eat meat. They live outdoors, not in houses; they don't wear clothes or drive around in cars; they usually sleep for many hours after eating a meal. Why cite just one of the many things that they do and argue that we should imitate them? This doesn't make much sense.” ShouldHouseHoursSleepAnimalCarEatingClothesArguingMeatMealsJust OneLionsCiting Author:Sharon Gannon
“There are many activities that human beings have been doing "forever." We might argue from that perspective that eating meat should be allowed to continue. Men have been raping women for thousands of years; does that mean that it is normal and should be allowed to continue?” MenShouldYearsHumansMeanDoeHas BeensMightHuman BeingsForeverPerspectiveActivityNormalEatingArguingMeatEating Meat Author:Sharon Gannon
“Eating meat and dairy products is the SAD (Standard American Diet) diet. The SAD diet can only make you sad. It causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and makes you fat. Raising animals for food destroys the environment... And those animals are not happy. They are enslaved and live humiliating, fearful lives of abuse and tremendous suffering. Veganism turns sadness into joy.” YearsHeartReasonJoySufferingTurnsCausesSimpleAnimalEnvironmentSadnessProductsDiseaseEatingStandardsAbuseCancerFatsMeatDietsFearfulRecipesVeganismNot HappyDiabetesHumiliatingDairyHeart DiseaseEating MeatAmerican DietDairy Products Author:Sharon Gannon
“The fact is that eating meat and dairy is bad for your health, the health of the animals eaten, as well as the health of the planet.” WellsFactsAnimalPlanetsEatingMeatDairyEating Meat Author:Sharon Gannon
“In fact, drinking milk and eating dairy products can rob your body of calcium and contribute to osteoporosis. If you eat dark green leafy vegetables like kale, collards, and mustard greens, you can get enough calcium from a vegan diet.” IfsEnoughFactsBodyDarkProductsEatingGreenDrinkingYour BodyDietsVeganVegetablesMilkDairyMustardVegan DietKaleCalciumOsteoporosisDairy Products Author:Sharon Gannon
“Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.” EffortPlanetsEatingSavingDietsVegetarianVegetarian Diet Author:Sharon Gannon
