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Whatever the reason, there's never been a better time to cut the meat out of your diet. With the huge selection of delicious vegetarian meats available—everything from Chik'n nuggets and mock ground beef to veggie bacon and Tuno—there’s no excuse not to go vegetarian. Make the switch to a compassionate, healthy lifestyle today by taking the Veg Pledge. While you're at it, be sure to forward this pledge to your friends and family members and ask them to go vegetarian too.

Did You Know:

In order for a cow to produce milk, she must first have a calf.  Female cows are artificially inseminated shortly after their 1^st birthday.  After giving birth, they lactate for 10 months, then they are reinseminated, & the cycle starts again.

The meat, eggs, & diary products that you consume no longer come from the small family farms that you see in children’s books.  They’re produced in intensive factory farms, where animals suffer from confinement, routine bodily mutilations, and painful slaughter techniques.

Chickens have their beaks sliced off with a hot blade.  Baby cows are separated from their mothers within 24 hours of birth.  Pigs get their teeth cut in half and their tails cut off.  It doesn’t have to be this way.

In every package of chicken, there’s a little a little poop – “shit”.   A USDA study found that 98 % of broiler chicken carcasses had detectable levels of E. Coli, indicating fecal contamination.

Got pus?  Milk does.  In the United States, we have the highest permitted upper limit of milk pus cell concentration in the world – almost twice the international standard of allowable pus cells.

Most animal products are packed full of antibiotics, dioxins, and food borne pathogens like E. Coli, salmonella, and campylobacter.  Millions of people get sick each year from eating contaminated meat, especially chicken & fish, and thousands die.

More than half of all the water consumed in the U.S. is used to raise animals for food.  A vegetarian diet requires 300 gallons of water per day, while meat-eating diet requires more than 4,000.

The way we breed animals for food is a threat to the planet.  It pollutes our environment while consuming huge amounts of water, grain, petroleum, pesticides, & drugs.

The meat industry causes more water pollution in the U.S. than all other industries combined.  More than 10 billion animals are raised and killed for food each year in the U.S. alone; they have to eat, and their waste has to go somewhere.

Did You Know:

According to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Vegetarians are about 40% less likely to get cancer THAN non-vegetarians, regardless of their risks such as smoking, body size, & social economic status.

Just to be clear, it’s not the fat and cholesterol that cause cancer; it’s the animal protein.  The fat & cholesterol cause heart disease, the animal protein causes cancer.  Dr. T. Colin Campbell, one of the world’s foremost epidemiologists & professor at Cornell University states that “human studies also support this carcinogenic effect of animal protein, even at usual levels of consumption .  . . . no chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein.”

It’s no secret that eating animal products - - full of saturated fat, cholesterol, pesticides, dioxins, hormones, & antibiotics – is bad for  your health & leads to many diseases & illnesses, including heart attacks, strokes, cancer, diabetes, & obesity.

Not worried about cancer & heart disease yet?  Well get this:  up to 33% of teens are obese and about 2/3rds of all Americans are overweight or obese.  Only 2% of vegans are obese.

Keeping animal products out of your body will make a huge difference in how you feel.  Replace that hamburger with a veggie burger and that glass of cow’s milk with soy milk & you’ll have clearer skin, more energy, and a longer, healthier life.  You’ll wonder why you didn’t do it sooner.

In your spare time, visit these sites below. . . .

http://video.about.com/womenshealth/Cervical-Dysplasia.htm Preventing Cervical Cancer & watch the video

http://video.about.com/womenshealth/Hysterectomy.htm Reasons For Hysterectomy & watch the video

http://video.about.com/womenshealth/Bladder-Infection.htm About Bladder Infections & watch the video

http://www.medicinenet.com/ovarian_cancer/page3.htm Ovarian Cancer Information

http://vegetarian.lifetips.com/cat/12199/vegetarian-breakfast-tips/ Vegetarian Breakfast Tips

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/ANSWERS/ANS00980.html The FDA & Soy Products

http://www.fbfc.com/scoop/feb01/lacto.html fermented foods information

http://www.geocities.com/healthyadvice/Nutrition-Q2.html for vegan source information on Vitamin D

http://www.geocities.com/healthyadvice/Health-Q13.html Can soy increase the length of a woman's menstrual cycle or affect PMS?

http://www.coconutoil.com/thyroid_health.htm Thyroid Health & Coconut Oil

http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/ The Truth About Soy

http://www.tropicaltraditions.com/whole_soy_story.htm The Story On Eating Too Much Soy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempeh What is Tempeh?

http://www.health.state.ny.us/environmental/water/drinking/bluegreenalgae.pdf Facts on Blue Green Algae

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/algae.html Facts on Blue Green Algae

http://www.life.ca/nl/68/algae.html More Facts & Dangers of Supplements That Contain Blue Green Algae

www.vegsoc.org

www.goveg.com

www.mercyforanimals.com

www.vegetarian.org.uk

www.covancecruelty.com YOU WILL SEE MONKEYS AND ALL GETTING TORTURED FOR MEDICAL STUDIES

Click on http://video.about.com/highbloodpressure/Blood-Pressure.htm Do you have High Blood Pressure?  Click to watch video 

Click on http://www.peta2.com/STUFF/s-recipereal.asp How To Cook Vegan & Vegetarian Style Recipes / Several to choose from

Click on http://www.peta2.com/STUFF/s-eat.asp Scroll down the page so you will know what you are putting in your mouth.  Labels you don't understand

Click on http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4488 Knowledge on Cholesterol