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Slide 1: Vegetarianism in a Nutshell For Animals • For the Hungry • For the Earth • For Your Health
Slide 2: Why Adopt a Vegan Diet? For Animals • For the Hungry For the Earth • For Your Health “The unexamined life is not worth living.” —Socrates
Slide 3: Health Eating for Life
Slide 4: Health
Slide 5: A Vegetarian Diet Prevents Cancer “ The vast majority of all cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and other forms of degenerative illness can be prevented simply by adopting a plant-based diet.” —Dr. T. Colin Campbell, director, The China Study
Slide 6: Got Cancer? “ In nine separate studies, the strongest and most consistent dietary factor linked with prostate cancer was high consumption of milk or dairy products. —Dr. Walter Willett, chair, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health ”
Slide 7: Got Zits? In a 2005 study of 47,000 high school girls, Harvard researchers found a very strong correlation between the amount of cow’s milk consumed and severe acne.
Slide 8: The Obesity Epidemic Meat-eaters have three times the obesity rate of vegetarians and nine times the obesity rate of
Slide 9: Vegetarians: Healthy and Sexy “ Since I’ve gone vegetarian, my body has never felt better and my taste buds have been opened up to a whole new world. It’s one of the most rewarding choices I’ve ever made .… ” —Alicia Silverstone Andre 3000 • Natalie Portman • Tobey Maguire © STARMAX, Inc.
Slide 10: Fish Flesh: Poisoning Your Brain The mercury and PCBs found in fish flesh cause brain damage and cancer.
Slide 11: Environment
Slide 12: Environment
Slide 13: Think You Can Be a Meat-Eating Environmentalist? Think again! “ “ To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn’t happen to give to charity.” —Howard Lyman
Slide 14: Environment Commercial fishing and fish farms are destroying the oceans.
Slide 15: Human Rights Eating meat steals food from the hungry.
Slide 16: Human Rights
Slide 17: Chicken Factory Farms
Slide 18: Pig Factory Farms
Slide 19: Trucked to the Slaughterhouse According to the meat industry’s own statistics, more than 1 million pigs and tens of millions of chickens and turkeys die each year during transport to the slaughterhouse alone.
Slide 20: ‘A Hunk of Veal in Every Glass of Milk’
Slide 21: Where Dairy Products Come From
Slide 22: The Egg Industry: The Worst of the Worst! According to the United Egg Producers, 98% of hens used by the egg industry are confined to battery cages.
Slide 23: Commercial Fishing
Slide 24: ‘Aquaculture’: Fish Factory Farms
Slide 25: Animal Rights: Extending Our Circle of Compassion They feel pain.
Slide 26: Animal Rights “There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.” —Isaac Bashevis Singer
Slide 27: Animal Rights “The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
Slide 28: Animal Rights No. of Democracies (Universal Voting Rights) 100 Years Ago: 0 No. of Child Protection Laws in the U.S. 100 Years Ago: 0 0
Slide 29: Animal Rights Slavery Is Abolished: 1865 (13th Amendment) Women Get the Right to Vote: 1920 (19th Amendment)
Slide 30: Animal Rights Every time you eat, you have a choice. By choosing vegetarian meals, you are helping fight cruelty to animals, environmental degradation, and global hunger. By choosing vegetarian meals, you are making the world a kinder, more just place.
Slide 31: Animal Rights Your Choice
Slide 32: So What Do Vegetarians Eat? © Steve Lee Visit VegCooking.com for thousands of easy, delicious recipes and product and restaurant recommendations. © Steve Lee
Slide 33: Thank You for Coming! For a free vegetarian starter kit with great recipes, visit GoVeg.com or call 1-888-VEG-FOOD.