The Environment
- Animal agriculture is bad for our environment. The United Nations calls the livestock sector "one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global... It should be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution and loss of biodiversity... The impact is so significant that it needs to be addressed with urgency." Livestock's Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options (from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
Health
- Meat is not a necessary part of a healthy diet.
- Vegetarians have a lower risk of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Read The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell to learn about long-term studies of plant-based diets versus animal-based diets.
Compassion
- Of the 650 million animals raised and slaughtered for food in Canada today, over 95% are mass-produced on horrific factory farms. Check out chooseveg.ca.
- Choose compassion. Animals feel pain too.
