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👇 “Societies that exploit animals for food are the main cause of world hunger because they feed a disproportionate percentage of the world's crops to 60 billion land animals annually killed by the meat, dairy and egg industries worldwide and tens of billions of marine animals (yes, we have fish farms nowadays) instead of 7.5 billion people on the planet! ▫️ Every two to three seconds some human (most likely a child) starves to death, while pigs and cows continually get fat. Even the Council for Agriculture, Science and Technology, a group comprised of people involved in animal agriculture, acknowledges that 10 billion people could be fed with the available crop land in America if everyone became vegan. ▫️ One acre of land can yield 30,000 pounds of carrots, 40,000 pounds of potatoes or 50,000 pounds of tomatoes. ▫️ However, one acre of land can yield only 250 pounds of meat. Why? Depending on the animal in question, it takes from three to twenty pounds of vegetable protein to create one pound of animal protein. ▫️ Thus it has been said in many places that animal agriculture works like “a protein factory in reverse.” However, not only does this process squander protein resources; it obliterates carbohydrates and fiber, antioxidants, phytochemicals, and many other nutrients altogether. ▫️ Jeremy Rifkin, a widely respected author on issues of worldwide food supply, traces the occurrences of famine directly to our increasing tendency to use precious food resources as animal feed. ▫️ In his editorial piece "There's a Bone to Pick with Meat Eaters", published in the Los Angeles Times in May 2002, Rifkin states that 36 percent of all the world's grains are fed to food animals; in the U.S. the number is a staggering 70 percent. (Many estimates have the worldwide number as high as 65 percent. Either estimate is obscene, and proves that eating animal-based foods is the worst form of human and animal abuse.) ▫️ Credit ➡ @cowspiracy ▫️ Documentaries ↙️ 🎬 COWSPIRACY: The Sustainability Secret (bit.ly/cow0001) ▫️ Follow 👥, Like ♥️, Share 🔄 & Comment 📝 #cowspiracy #saveourplanet #veganfortheanimals #meat #meatkills #environment #bestoftheday #health #worldhunger #facts https://www.instagram.com/p/BpPa3dWgLBD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19o1phffdao68

Regrann from @vegsource - Research is in: keto diet will kill you: The Atkins diet may raise the risk of fatal heart disease, according to a new study. Analysis of more than 2,440 men found that those with a high protein intake faced a 33 per cent increased risk of developing heart failure, where the organ is unable to pump sufficient blood and oxygen around the body. The Atkins diet is the best known of a range of popular commercial regimes claiming to help people lose weight by embracing low-carbohydrate, high-protein eating. But the scientists behind the new study, published in the journal Circulation, said dieters are wrong to assume an abundance of protein is healthy. Those who ate the most protein from animal sources had a 43 per cent higher risk of heart failure compare to those in the study who ate the least. #meatkills #vegan #starchsolution #clearskindiet - #regrann

Happy birthday, Moz! Thank you for telling the truth and standing up for the animals! Much respect and love 🙏🏽💕 #meatkills #morrissey #meatismurder #meat #health #environment #animalrights #animals #planet #tobacco

#Repost @veg_md - The evidence continues to pour in…meat causes us harm. Published this week, this 16-year study of more than half a million people showed that those eating the most red meat – processed or unprocessed – had a 26% higher risk of earlier death. They also had a higher risk of dying specifically from cancer, heart disease, lung diseases, stroke, diabetes, infections, kidney disease, and liver disease. . We've known for a long time that processed meats (ie, any meat that has been smoked, cured, fermented, or has added preservatives- eg bacon, ham, deli slices, sausage, pepperoni, etc) are extraordinarily toxic to our health, raising the risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and other ailments. In this study, UNPROCESSED red meat (eg unprocessed beef, pork, lamb, veal) was every bit as hazardous. . Two of the big health culprits in red meat are heme iron (ie, iron from animal sources) and nitrate/nitrite preservatives. Both cause oxidative stress and inflammation in our bodies, greatly increasing our risk for disease and early death. This helps explain why vegetarians have a 25% lower risk of ischemic heart disease and an 8% lower risk of cancer; vegans have a 15% lower risk of cancer. . What about 'white meat' like chicken? Well, this study proved the well-known point that if you compare something bad (chicken) to something really really bad (red meat), the bad food comes out looking less bad. But what if we compared chicken to beans, whole grains, vegetables, nuts, or fruits? Plant protein lowers mortality compared to all animal proteins. Chicken is by no means a health food. It still contains inflammatory elements like animal protein, saturated fat, & cholesterol, as well as natural hormones and in most cases, antibiotics. No chicken-containing diet has been shown to reverse heart disease, our #1 killer. Our best bet for long-term health is a diet based on PLANTS. . References Main paper: Etemadi et al, BMJ 2017 (see BMJ.com for full paper) Health outcomes of vegetarians: Dinu et al, Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr 2016 Animal vs plant: Song et al, JAMA Int Med 2016 . #plantbased #meatkills #vegan #vegansofig

Children, pregnant women, and developing embryos are thought to be most susceptible to negative health effects from added hormones. For example, hormone residues in beef have been examined as a cause of lower sperm counts in boys.  The use of rBGH in dairy cows was linked in one study to increases in human twin and triplet births.