Reasons to go Vegan

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Neal Barnard, M.D., President of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine:"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people', you'd better live real close to a real good hospital."American rancher who owns grazing land in the Amazon: "You buy the land out there now for the same price as a couple of bottles of beer per acre. When you've got half a million acres and 20,000 head of cattle, you can leave the lousy place and go live in Paris, Hawaii, Switzerland, or anywhere you choose."Ralph Waldo Emerson in Fate:"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."Ruth Harrison, author of Animal Machines:"In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last blow."John Robbins, author of Diet For A New America:"A reduction in beef and other meat consumption is the most potent single act you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources. Our choices do matter. What's healthiest for each of us personally is also healthiest for the life support system of our precious, but wounded planet."

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