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Peaceful Diet – About Our principle of a ‘Peaceful Diet’ is based on the belief that a plant-based diet has positive benefits for humans and the environment. In addition, we believe that world peace can only be achieved when the annual slaughter of billions of animals is abolished.
Plant-Based Diet Benefits to Humans
- Vegetables, fruits and other plant foods are rich sources of antioxidant nutrients (like vitamins C and E, beta-carotene and other carotenoids) that may protect our cells from damage by cancer-causing agents, halting the earliest processes that lead to cancer.
- Vegetables, fruits and other plant foods contain thousands of phytochemicals (natural substances in plants, like indoles, isoflavones and polyphenols) that appear to protect against cancer in a variety of ways.
- Vegetables, fruits and other plant foods help protect against heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and hypertension.
- Soluble fiber from grains and legumes helps to lower blood cholesterol.
- A plant-based diet can also contribute significantly to reducing obesity, which, in itself, is a risk factor for cancer, heart disease, and other diseases.
- A plant-based diet would help to control and possibly eliminate the spread of zoonotic diseases.
- A plant-based diet is one of the best decisions you can make to preserve and improve the health of humans.
Plant-Based Diet Benefits to Animals
- A meat-based diet is discriminatory and speciesist to animals, who, as sentient non-humans, all have the right to live cruelty-free without being used and abused by humans for food, clothing, and entertainment.
- A plant-based diet would, therefore, eliminate all animal cruelty and end the suffering and slaughter of upwards of 56 billion animals every year.
- A plant-based diet is one of the best decisions you can make to preserve and improve the health of animals.
Plant-Based Diet Benefits to the Environment
- A 2006 United Nations report called the meat industry one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.
- Plant-based diets require about one-sixth of an acre of land to satisfy food requirements for a person for a year – the average meat-eating diet requires about 20 times that.
- The amount of water required to produce 1 pound of Californian Beef = 2,464 gallons; the water required to produce 1 pound of Californian potatoes = 24 gallons. Less than 1% of water is required to produce 1lb potatoes.
- The number of people whose food energy needs can be met by the food produced on 2.5 acres of land: If the land is producing beef = 1 person; If the land is producing potatoes = 22 persons.
- It takes up to 16 pounds of grain (many more of grass) to produce 1 pound of meat.
- An area of rainforest the size of seven football fields is destroyed every minute to make room for grazing cattle which are then slaughtered for meat.
- A plant-based diet is one of the best decisions you can make to preserve and improve the health of the environment.
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Facts About Hunger & Poverty WORLD POPULATION
6.8 billion
WORLD HUNGER
925 million people do not have enough to eat — more than the populations of USA,
Canada and the European Union combined.
98% of the world's undernourished people live in developing countries.
Two-thirds of the world's hungry live in just 7 countries: Bangladesh, China,
the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia and Pakistan.
WHERE IS HUNGER THE WORST?
Asia and the Pacific: 578 million
Sub-Saharan Africa: 239 million
Latin America and the Caribbean: 53 million
Near East and North Africa: 37 million
Developed countries: 19 million
WOMEN & CHILDREN
60 percent of the world's hungry are women.
50 percent of pregnant women in developing countries lack proper maternal care,
resulting in over 300,000 maternal deaths annually from childbirth.
1 out of 6 infants are born with a low birth weight in developing countries.
A third of all childhood death in sub-Saharan Africa is caused by hunger.
Every five seconds, a child dies from hunger-related diseases.
POVERTY
1.4 billion people in developing countries live on $1.25 a day or less.
Rural areas account for three out of every four people living on less than $1.25
a day.
22,000 children die each day due to conditions of poverty.
HIV/AIDS & OTHER DISEASES
35 million people are living with HIV/AIDS.
65 percent of young people living with HIV/AIDS are women.
90 percent of all children and 60 percent of all women living with HIV are in
sub-Saharan Africa.
More than 11 million children die each year from preventable health issues such
as malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia.
AGRICULTURE
75 percent of the world's poorest people — 1.4 billion women, children, and men
— live in rural areas and depend on agriculture and related activities for their
livelihood.
50 percent of hungry people are farming families.
WATER
1.7 billion people lack access to clean water.
2.3 billion people suffer from water-borne diseases each year.
12 percent of the world's population uses 85 percent of its water, and none of
the 12 percent lives in developing countries.
Source:
The Hunger Project Animal Kill Counter
Estimate of animals slaughtered since you opened this page:
0 marine animals
0 chickens
0 ducks
0 pigs
0 rabbits
0 turkeys
0 geese
0 sheep
0 goats
0 cows and calves
0 rodents (excluding rabbits)
0 pigeons and other birds
0 buffaloes
0 horses, donkeys, mules, camelids
These are the numbers of animals killed worldwide by the meat, egg, and
dairy industries since you opened this webpage. These numbers do NOT include
the many millions of animals killed each year in vivisection laboratories.
They do NOT include the millions of dogs and cats killed in animal shelters
every year. They do NOT include the animals who died while held captive in
the animal-slavery enterprises of circuses, rodeos, zoos, and marine parks.
They do NOT include the animals killed while pressed into such blood sports
as bullfighting, cockfighting, dogfighting, and bear-baiting, nor do they
include horses and greyhounds who were exterminated after they were no
longer deemed suitable for racing.
Many thanks to Gary Yourofsky at
www.adaptt.org for the text and source code.
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