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| Vegan LifeStyle Category |
| 8 Articles |
| In Praise Of Vegans By: Dr. John McDougall, M.D. This brief statement by Dr. McDougall exemplifies what a Vegan Lifestyle is all about. "Being vegan says to me this is a person with outstanding character. Vegans are industrious. To avoid eating animals in a world where beef, chicken, and cheese are mixed in with everything in the market and on the menu is a daily struggle." |
| Vegan Lifestyle David Horton Interviews: Vegan Doctor, Michael Klaper, M.D. "We live in a decidedly non-vegan world. It all starts with the self, to find that quiet place in the self that, no matter what is happening around, I know that I’m going to maintain my center of non-violence, and no matter what anyone else is eating at the table, “no thank you I’m not going to have any today.” You make your own decisions. I would say to every young person, slow down, the world starts with your example." |
| Eating Without Killing Vegetarian Health Without Animal Cruelty By: Douglas Dunn "Our bodies did not evolve for diets that require the killing of other sentient beings. As with our closest biological relatives, our bodies were developed to thrive on the fresh fruits, nuts, grains and vegetables that were abundant in the primeval surroundings from which our species emerged. Eating meat is still an "acquired" taste -- it is not natural to us the way eating fruits or vegetables is. We still disguise our meat so it has very little resemblance to the natural carcass that a true carnivore would savor.” |
| Humans as Predators By: Carol J. Adams "The "natural" predator argument ignores social construction as well. Since we eat corpses in a way quite differently from any other animals— dismembered, not freshly killed, not raw, and with other foods present— what makes it natural? Meat is a cultural construct made to seem natural and inevitable. Baby boomers faced the additional problem that as they grew up, meat and dairy products had been canonized as two of the four basic food groups. The notion of humans as predators is consonant with the idea that we need to eat meat." |
| Is Meat Sustainable? World Watch Magazine "Until recently, few environmentalists have suggested that meat-eating belongs on the same scale of importance as the kinds of issues that have energized Amazon Watch, or Conservation International, or Greenpeace. On ecological and economic grounds alone, meat- eating is now a looming problem for humankind. You don’t have to have any conscience at all to know that the age of heavy meat-eating will soon be over as surely as will the age of oil." |
| The Environment And A Plant-Based Diet By: James Robert Deal "A significant part of our impact on the physical environment is a result of the foods we eat and how we produce them. Lands in the Western United States — and elsewhere — are being turned into deserts by the grazing of cattle and sheep. Much of this land was once covered with knee-high grass; along streams there were trees; it was populated by buffalo, elk, and deer. The grass has been replaced with tumbleweed and creosote plants, and stream banks have been destroyed by the hooves of grazing animals.” |
| Vivisection Or Science: A Choice To Make By: Professor Pietro Croce, M.D "An experimental model of the human being does not exist. Every species, all the varieties of animals and even individuals of the same species are different from each other. No experimentation carried out on one species can be extrapolated to any other, including man. Our demand for the abolition of animal experiments is not based on a love of animals but a concern for the health of our fellow human beings. Anti-vivisectionist thinking is much more scientific than the boasting of the vivisectors who do not realize that they live and function in a medieval climate of thought." |
| Why Vegan? By: Hesh Goldstein "Thanks to millions of dollars in advertising, we have been brainwashed to believe we need meat, fish, poultry, eggs, and milk as the staples of our diet. These high fat, high cholesterol, artery clogging "foods" have been accepted as an essential part of the American diet. Ever present is the fact that poultry has been accepted as a "safer" option. In addition to this profit-driven advertising, federal laws mandate that all schools provide children with milk and flesh at each meal or lose federal funding. We are the only creatures that regularly consume the milk products of other species. Rat's milk, anyone? |
| John McDougall, M.D. |
| Michael Klaper, M.D. |
| Douglas Dunn |
| Carol J. Adams |
| James Robert Deal |
| Hesh Goldstein |
