... dairy products and eggs in the diet along with plant-based foods. A Lacto Vegetarian is someone who eats no meat or eggs but does eat dairy products. Then there are the strictest of the non-meat eaters, they are called vegans. A vegan would be someone who refrains from eating all animal flesh, animal by-products and clothes and merchandise made by injuring ... , mental and spiritual perks of turning away from meat let's simply take a look at how many animals die each year due to factory farming. In 2001 alone over 9.8 billion animals were killed for food in the United States. This includ...

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... to eat these foods in order to remain healthy. The truth is that children raised on vegetarian, or even vegan diets, which contain absolutely no animal products, can get all the nutrients they need for optimum growth from a plant -based diet. On the other hand, by the first ... to completely remedy the far smaller amount of pesticide residues found in our produce, we should choose to eat only organic products, which use absolutely no artificial pesticides, chemicals, or hormones. f. It is a very common belief that in order to be an athlete or to develop strong muscles, ... diet typical...

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... that comes from animals. To begin, animals that are produced for human consumption live their entire lives as machines. For example male cows and pigs are castrated without painkillers. Also when many of the chicken livestock are being bread, they spend their entire lives inside cages that are too small ... Eisnitz 166) In short, when animals get sent to a slaughterhouse to be packaged, they do not go through a painless experience, as much as that would be pleasant, people need to be more aware of this because it is happening everyday of the year. Secondly, utilization of animal substanc...

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... that comes from animals. To begin, animals that are produced for human consumption live their entire lives as machines. For example male cows and pigs are castrated without painkillers. Also when many of the chicken livestock are being bread, they spend their entire lives inside cages that are too small ... Eisnitz 166) In short, when animals get sent to a slaughterhouse to be packaged, they do not go through a painless experience, as much as that would be pleasant, people need to be more aware of this because it is happening everyday of the year. Secondly, utilization of animal substanc...

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... much nutritional value, devastating, long term health consequences pertain mostly to an individual who consumes animal products. More people die each year due to meat consumption than that of the number who die from smoking. The most common cause of death in the United States is a heart attack, killing one person ... which is only found in animal products.. There is a 12% rise in blood cholesterol from consuming one egg a day. There is a 24% rise in heart attack risk from a 12% rise in cholesterol. No dietary cholesterol intake is needed to support human health. As far as us women are c...

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