Why vegetarian?

Health

Appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention of certain diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes, strokes and some forms of cancer.

It’s also a dietary therapy for osteoporosis, allergies, asthma, environmental illness, hypertension, gout, gallstones, hemorrhoids, kidney stones, ulcers, colitis, premenstrual syndrome, anxiety, and depression.

Animals

60 billion land animals are killed each year1 in order for their flesh to be turned into meat. Most animals kept on factory farms will not see the sun or breathe fresh air until the day they are transported to a slaughterhouse to be killed.

Environment

A study published in March 2016 by Oxford University, found that ‘vegetarian and vegan diets could save millions of lives and drastically cut global warming.