Vegetarianism in a Nutshell

1. Vegetarianism in a Nutshell For Animals • For the Hungry • For the Earth • For Your Health

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

3. Health Eating for Life

4. Meat Causes Heart Disease “Vegetarians have the best diet. … [They] have a fraction of our heart attack rate, and they have only 40 percent of our cancer rate.” —William Castelli, M.D., director of the Framingham Heart Study, the longest-running clinical study in medical history Health

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

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 ”

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.

8. The Obesity Epidemic Meat-eaters have three times the obesity rate of vegetarians and nine times the obesity rate of vegans.

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 © STARMAX, Inc. ” Andre 3000 • Natalie Portman • Tobey Maguire

10. Fish Flesh: Poisoning Your Brain • The mercury and PCBs found in fish flesh cause brain damage and cancer.

11. Environment

12. Environment

13. Think You Can Be a Meat-Eating Environmentalist? “ To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn’t happen to give to charity.” —Howard Lyman “ • Think again!

14. Environment • Commercial fishing and fish farms are destroying the oceans.

15. Human Rights • Eating meat steals food from the hungry.

16. Human Rights

17. Animal Welfare • ‘Meet Your Meat’

18. Chicken Factory Farms

19. Pig Factory Farms

20. 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.

21. ‘A Hunk of Veal in Every Glass of Milk’

22. Where Dairy Products Come From

23. 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.

24. Commercial Fishing

25. ‘Aquaculture’: Fish Factory Farms

26. Animal Rights: Extending Our Circle of Compassion • They feel pain.

27. 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

28. Animal Rights “The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

29. 0 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

30. Animal Rights Slavery Is Abolished: 1865 (13th Amendment) Women Get the Right to Vote: 1920 (19th Amendment)

31. 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.

32. Animal Rights • Your Choice

33. So What Do Vegetarians Eat? © Steve Lee © Steve Lee • Visit VegCooking.com for thousands of easy, delicious recipes and product and restaurant recommendations.

34. Thank You for Coming! • For a free vegetarian starter kit with great recipes, visit GoVeg.com or call 1-888-VEG-FOOD.