Eat your veggies!

Articles

Dig In: A Recipe for Healing the Planet With Your Fork by Steve Lustgarden

Calcium & Osteoporosis: Would it surprise you to learn that the main proponents of adding more calcium to your diet are companies that profit from the sale of milk and calcium supplements?

Realities: Startling facts excerpted from the Pulitzer Prize nominated Diet for a New America by John Robbins

Myths about Vegetarianism: No, vegetarians aren't skinny, sickly weirdos out to convert you to save the chickens. Odds are they're healthier than you are.

Related Links

Following is a selection of the thousands of web sites with information on health and vegetarianism:

Vegetarian Guide Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)
Meat-Free Zone Earthsave International
Vegetarian Resource Group

Vegetarian Information from Vegetarian Diet Info

The Vegetarian Site

Veg Source
Living Vegetarian Vegetarian Times magazine
Veggie Sports Association Vegetarian recipes
Take the veg pledge! Vegetarian restaurants

 

 

Eating for Better Health

Your choices at the grocery store or restaurant can have many consequences. The most important for most people are the many positive health benefits of a vegetarian diet.

picture of a tomatoHealthy - 12 power foods - lycopene

Links for BBC articles

athletes

Eating to Help Humanity

picture of broccoliYour choices when eating reflect your values as a human being.

population of earth - waste - feed 10x with resources used to feed one meat eater

ethics/cruelty

Eating to Help the Planet

Planet EarthQuick facts: more water, more energy, more pollution, more waste

Slaughterhouse water pollution

global warming

rainforest deforestation

Think you can be a meat eating environmentalist? Think again!

Help the Environment! Become a Vegetarian!

Ready to Make the Switch?

Convinced? Take the Veg Pledge and get a free vegetarian starter kit!