Vegan lifestyle has various benefits ranging from a longer lifespan, prevention of heart disease and cancer, sparing of animals from suffering on factory farms, and it is environmentally conscious as factory farming of animals is a leading cause of Greenhouse gas emissions.
UN has declared that a change in diet is needed to reduce green house emissions.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/07/food.foodanddrink
This study discusses the link between Cancer, heart disease, death rate and eating meat.
http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20090323/eating-red-meat-may-boost-death-risk
A study at Harvard indicates that drinking milk can lead to Prostate Cancer and Ovarian Cancer. It recommends other sources of Calcium such as soy milk, bok choy, and collards.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/calcium-and-milk/index.html
Last but not least, this is why I am Vegan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4
Factory farmed animals rarely ever get to walk on the grass, feel the Sun on their face, have a family, or do anything that is natural to them. They live their life caged away in extreme pain, and I refuse to partake in that pain.
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