Vegan Diet

Video

• Joel Fuhrman - Eat to Live

  Contrary to popular belief, you don't have to live the rest of your life in pain or on medication. You can reverse disease, reduce high blood pressure, lose unwanted weight, lower your cholesterol levels, prevent heart disease and cancer, and improve your health - all without relying on drugs and fad diets. The importance of good nutrition is emphasized in Dr. Fuhrman's dietary program, Eat To Live.

• Why So Many Are Sick

  Milton Mills MD puts it all together -- how the real enemy of American is not Osama, and how meat can cause behavioral problems in children.

• Eating (preview)

  This video uncover the many facts that the meat and dairy industries do not want you to know: that their products are the biggest cause of disease, disability, and death in the U.S. today. Mike Anderson not only answers basic questions about how easily protein and calcium needs can be met on a vegan diet and the link between diet and America's biggest diseases, he also goes a step further, explaining how the typical American diet is destroying our environment and exposing factory farms as "concentration camps" for animals.

• John Robbins - "Healthy at 100"

  Excerpt from John Robbins' recent Healthy Lifestyle Expo 2006 talk about his new book, "Healthy at 100." This is a book aimed at baby boomers which looks at studies of 4 cultures where people regularly live to 100, and determine what these cultures have in common that is responsible for longevity and good health.

• What is the Healthiest Diet?

  We know it's a plant-based diet, but how much emphasis on starches versus veggies? Two medical giants, John McDougall MD and Joel Fuhrman MD, discuss and debate the question.

• The Truth About Nutrition

  In a world of fad diets and false information, a video that shines light upon the shadows of doubt regarding proper nutrition and health.

• Barack Obama: Americans would benefit from a change in diet.

  Barack Obama confesses that a vegan diet is healthier than a meat-based diet.

Articles

• American Dietetic Association (ADA): Plant-Based / Vegan Diet (June 2003)

  Position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada: well-planned vegan and other types of vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood and adolescence.

• The Comparative Anatomy of Eating

  Milton R. Mills, M.D., compares the anatomy of human animals and nonhuman animals.

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• Planetary Emergency - Did You Know?

  The inconvenient truth about factory farms and meat-eating.

• Barack Obama: how meat-based diet causes global food crisis.

  Barack Obama explains the link between a meat-based diet and the global food crisis.

Articles

• Well-Fed World: Hunger Fact Sheet
• Why vegans were right all along

  A meat eater point of view: famine can only be avoided if the rich give up meat, fish and dairy.

Video

• Planetary Emergency - Did You Know?

  The inconvenient truth about factory farms and meat-eating.

• CNN: Going Vegan
• Veganism - The Solution
• The Link Between Meat Eating and Climate Change

  Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, delivers a keynote address on the devastating role factory farms are playing in the climate change crisis at Animal Legal Defense Fund's "Future of Animal Law" conference at Harvard Law School in March 2007.

Articles

• America's Animal Factories - How States Fail to Prevent Pollution from Livestock Waste (December 1998)

  Factory farms have polluted our surface waters, our groundwater and our air. Moreover, public health is being threatened. It's time to recognize the damage that animal factories are wreaking on our environment.

• Livestock, Development & Deforestation Brazil's Amazon (August 2003)

  It’s well known that the largest remaining tropical rainforest on Earth, that of the Amazon, is undergoing rapid deforestation.

• Worldwatch Institute: Now, It's Not Personal! (August 2004)

  Like it or not, meat-eating is becoming a problem for everyone on the planet.

• Livestock's Long Shadow - Environmental Issues and Options (November 2006)

  A United Nations report, released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on 29 November 2006, that "aims to assess the full impact of the livestock sector on environmental problems, along with potential technical and policy approaches to mitigation."

• UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): Livestock a major threat to environment (November 2006)

  Remedies urgently needed

• New Scientist: Meat is murder on the environment (July 2007)

  A kilogram of beef is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution than driving for 3 hours while leaving all the lights on back home.

• The methane time bomb (September 2008)

  Arctic scientists discover new global warming threat as melting permafrost releases millions of tons of a gas 20 times more damaging than carbon dioxide.

• The Ecological Consequences of Meat Consumption

  Summarizing article on the many destructive consequences of meat consumption.

• Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change are...cows, pigs, and chickens? (October 2009)

  Discusses all phases of livestock agriculture and concludes that this sector causes the emission of at least half of all human-caused greenhouse gases.

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• The Philosophy of Animal Rights, by Tom Regan

  Amazing video.

• Earthlings

  A must see multi-award documentary: the single most powerful and informative movie about society's treatment of nonhuman animals (2003, directed by Shaun Monson).

• Meat your Meat

  The video that all non-vegans should watch and every vegan should own, "Meet Your Meat," narrated by Alec Baldwin, covers each stage of life of animals raised for food.

• Christianity and Animal Rights

  Does the Animal Kingdom need a Bill of Rights? Rev Dr Andrew Linzey author 'Christianity and the Rights of Animals' speaks for the motion.

• A Sacred Duty: Applying Jewish Values To Help Heal The World (Judaism and Animal Rights)

  Our planet is imperiled as perhaps never before by global warming and other environmental threats. It is urgent that steps be taken immediately to avoid the unprecedented catastrophe toward which the world is rapidly heading.

Articles

• The case for Animal Rights, by Tom Regan
• The philosophy of Animal Rights, by Tom Regan

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• VEGAN. For the People. For the Planet. For the Animals.

  Award winning video by Matt Bear.

• Eating (preview)

  This video uncover the many facts that the meat and dairy industries do not want you to know: that their products are the biggest cause of disease, disability, and death in the U.S. today. Mike Anderson not only answers basic questions about how easily protein and calcium needs can be met on a vegan diet and the link between diet and America's biggest diseases, he also goes a step further, explaining how the typical American diet is destroying our environment and exposing factory farms as "concentration camps" for animals.

Articles

• The Global Benefits of Eating Less Meat (2004)

  80 page report from 2004 by Compassion in World Farming Trust (CIWF Trust). Comprehensive referenced report on the unsustainability of our increasing meat consumption and current intensive animal farming methods for human health and the economy, the environment and farmed animals.