Make the world a better place.
The vegan perspective is that animals are here on this earth for their own purpose, not for humans to use as they see fit.
Go Vegan!
In its truest sense, being vegan is much more than not eating animal products- meat, fish, eggs, milk, honey, or their derivative by-products, such as gelatin, whey, and lard. In addition to diet, vegans also exclude animal products and products tested on animals from their choices in clothing, toiletries, cosmetics, household products, etc.
Vegan foods, such as whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and beans, are low in fat, especially saturated fat, contain no cholesterol, and are rich in fiber and nutrients. Both meat and dairy are high in saturated fat and cholesterol. Vegans, on average, live seven years longer than people do on a meat-based diet.
Love all living things.
Veganism is a complete lifestyle, a way of thinking and interacting with the world. Being vegan means consciously and actively taking steps to live peaceably with other species, our environment, and ourselves. It is a way of living which seeks to exclude all forms of exploitation of and cruelty to animals for the purposes of food, clothing, experimentation, entertainment, or sport.
Environmental Benefits
A plant-based diet requires significantly less water, land, and energy to produce the same amount of food as a meat-based diet.
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Raising animals for food is a wasteful and inefficient process, requiring more than half the water and one-third of the raw materials produced in the United States and is the biggest polluter of our water and topsoil. Most of the grain grown in the United States is used to feed livestock, including 90% of oats, 85% of corn, and 80% of soybeans.
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It is economically unsound to have an animal eat food, process it, and then have a human eat the animal to gain the nutrients the animal got from the food it ate. Americans typically have three to four times as much protein in their diet as is necessary. Vegans are able to get the perfect amount of protein. There is nothing nutritive that cannot be readily obtained from plant sources.
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Rain forests are being destroyed to make grazing land for cattle. Topsoil, a non-renewable resource, is being eroded by cattle farms. Animal waste run-off from slaughterhouses and feedlots seeps into the ground, contaminating the soil and poisoning groundwater and rivers; they are the single largest polluters of the rivers and streams in the United States. Commercial fishermen pollute the oceans with their jettisoned cargo.
