Use Vegan Month to change your diet
NOVEMBER is Vegan Month — the perfect opportunity to adopt a diet free from all animal products! In one simple step, you can help end animal suffering and boost your health.
Going vegan is good for the planet, too, as animal farming is responsible for 18 per cent of all global greenhouse gas emissions — more than worldwide road and air travel combined.
Vegans are also less prone to heart disease, diabetes and some cancers than meat eaters.
If you also care about animals, consider this: every year, millions of day-old male chicks are gassed or tossed alive into giant industrial shredders, as they are deemed useless to the egg industry.
But vegan foods — including non-dairy milk, cream, yoghurt, custard, cream cheese, ice cream and more — can now be found easily in shops.
Animal Aid's new website www.veganrecipes.org.uk has three weeks' worth of delicious recipes to get anyone off to a flying start. More recipes, plus nutritional information and shopping tips are available from Animal Aid's free 32-page vegan guide.
To enter Animal Aid's vegan hamper competition, or to order a free Go Vegan guide, visit www.veganmonth.com.
Kelly Slade
Animal Aid, Tonbridge, Kent
(by email)
6 Comments
by Ian Davies, Cockwood
Wednesday, November 12 2008, 8:57PM
“Thank you indeed for your offer to consider going vegan. I admire you for your chosen lifestyle & think you are entirely within your rights to eat the food you've chosen, so good on you for standing up for what you believe in.
For me, I've always eaten meat, I enjoy eating meat & I will continue to eat meat for as long as I am able, because that's my choice. I have a great deal of respect for the meat I do eat and indeed for the welfare of the animals who are reared for this purpose. I choose free range products wherever possible and like to buy locally sourced products from farms that are known to me (in fact, a lot of the eggs I eat are from free range chickens kept by neighbours of mine).
While I sadly won't take you up on your offer, I do hope that we can both have a mutual respect for each others chosen lifestyles. After all, isn't diversity something that keeps this world of ours interesting!!”
by Jim, exeter
Wednesday, November 12 2008, 3:25PM
“We have canine and incisor teeth....enough said”
by Nigel M, Cullompton
Wednesday, November 12 2008, 2:20PM
“Man has evolved to be an omnivore and lacks the physiology to survive on a vegan diet without that food being processed. Becoming vegan is therefore an unnatural choice - but it is yours to make if you wish.
Not sure about your 18% - you can't count animal emissions as this is part of the carbon cycle and makes no net addition.
And can someone explain why it is necessary to mimic non-vegan foods? Lack of conviction maybe?”
by Mike, Exmth
Wednesday, November 12 2008, 1:26PM
“Happy, healthy non-vegan for 70 years.”
by Paul, Alphington
Wednesday, November 12 2008, 11:23AM
“I think that trash is what many people eat. Don't knock it unless you have tried it. Happy, healthy vegan for 15 years.”
by Mike, Exmth
Wednesday, November 12 2008, 9:53AM
“Vegan month? Trash.
No thanks.”