Benefits of Going Vegan

Health

Vegan diets tend to be rich in nutrients and low in saturated fats. Research suggests that the vegan diet can improve heart health, protect against cancer, chronic diseases, and lower the risk of type 2 diabetes. Eating fresh fruits and vegetables, legumes, and fiber is linked to a lower risk of heart disease. Well-planned vegan diets generally include all these foods in large amounts. Vegans may benefit from up to a 75% lower risk of developing high blood pressure and have up to a 42% lower risk of dying from heart disease (the number one killer in the U.S). Vegan diets have lower rates of arthritis, improved liver function, and healthier kidneys. You'll notice fitness payoffs, more energy, reduced inflammation and easier weight management. People who eat a a vegan diet tend to be leaner than those who don’t, and the diet makes it easy to lose weight and keep it off—without counting calories. Studies show vegans have a higher sex drive, vegan food boost blood circulation - including to the brain which has a positive effect on the libido.

Earth

From land use, to water supply, to greenhouse gas emissions, what you put on your plate has repercussions for the planet. Choosing a vegan diet is one of the best things you can do for the environment. The main reason is that raising animals for food is an incredibly inefficient use of resources. Growing crops to feed animals introduces a major extra step of waste relative to the efficiency of us just eating the plant foods directly, if you just eat the plants you cut out the middleman. Vegan diets are more water-effecient, nearly half of the water consumption in the United States goes toward raising livestock. A pound of beef can take 1,800 to 4,000 gallons of water to produce. The average water footprint per gram of protein of beef is six times larger than for legumes. Livestock and their byproducts account for over half (51%) of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Our ever-warming planet affects land and marine animals alike. Animal agriculture is the leading cause of desertification and deforestation. Sadly, up to 137 insect, animal, and plant species are lost every day due to these clearings.

Animals

On today’s farms, animals used for food are crammed by the thousands into filthy, windowless sheds or stuffed into wire cages, metal crates, and other torturous devices. Animals used for food will never raise their families, root around in the soil, build nests, or do anything else that’s natural and important to them. Most won’t even feel the warmth of the sun on their backs or breathe fresh air until the day they’re loaded onto trucks headed for slaughterhouses. Billions of fish—along with “nontarget” animals, including sharks, sea turtles, birds, seals, and whales—are caught each year by the commercial fishing industry. A fishless ocean is in our sights, as soon as 2048. Since a vegan abstains from using animal products, it spares animals used for clothing, such as foxes used for fur, and cows for leather. As well as clothing, over 115 million animals are currently used in laboratory experiments, testing food items and cosmetics. However, by purchasing cruelty-free products (that do not contain animal products and are not tested on animals), animals such as mice, dogs, cats, monkeys, rabbits, and birds are also spared.

Here are a few famous celebrities and athletes who use their platform to advocate for our beautiful planet and the lives that are on it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where do you get your protein? Getting enough protein is not actually as hard as people will make you think. What people don’t realise is that protein is in virtually everything we eat! Plus most adults need only about 50g a day but consume considerably more than this. Great vegan sources of protein include, tofu, tempeh, seitan, lentils, chickpeas, beans, nuts and seeds And remember all the biggest and toughest creatures in the animal kingdom are herbivores!
I've heard vegans have trouble getting enough B12? Vegans can get B12 through fortified plant milks, marmite and nutritional yeast flakes. We recommend that vegans take a B12 supplement as any B12 present in plant foods is not easily absorbed into the body. Everyone over 50 years of age should supplement too because the ability to absorb B12 from food decreases with age. It is important to also realise B12 is usually supplemented into ‘livestock’ animals diets too, so there is no ‘natural’ way for getting B12 in today’s society.
If everyone went vegan, wouldn't animals take over the world? No. It is a simple supply and demand issue- the more vegans there are, the less animals will be farmed.
But plants feel pain too! No doubt the person saying this will happily walk on grass! While plants can respond to stimuli, they don’t contain a central nervous system, therefore don’t experience pain. Unlike cows, pigs, chickens, dogs, cats, fish and sheep, plants are not sentient beings.
What do you eat? What DON’T we eat! There is a huge variety of food that is naturally vegan (fruits, vegetables, grain, legumes, nuts and seeds) as well as lots of specialist vegan products. It's much easier these days with plenty of vegan products and recipes available, and more coming into the market all the time.