#1 of 99 Reasons to Switch to a Plant Based Diet . . .

 . . . . and 99 reasons to practice veganism!

Plant Based Reason #1

Because all nutrients, including calcium, iron and protein, come from plants and their produce, not animals :-) Scroll down for more information about this.

Look for me down below to learn where nutrition comes from!

 Vegan Reason #1

Because you believe in equal rights and it wouldn’t be equal if you only believed that some deserve equal rights but not all.

(Click here for reason #2)

But how can every being have equal rights?

A quick check of whether or not something is actually a right is this:  If your ‘right’ takes away the right of another, then is it really your right?  Why not?  Because you yourself would not want someone else to have a ‘right’ that took away your right.  For example the right to have you as a slave, the right to have sex with you without consent, the right to take your children or your property.  Even if it were legal to do these things to you, you would know that these so-called rights are actually wrongs even if the person doing these things to you did not agree, even if the law did not agree.

Rights include:

• The right to conceive children naturally
• The right to nurse your children and to be with them until they are naturally ready to be on their own
• The right to freedom – this means that you are not kept in any place where you cannot willfully leave
• The right to a life without unnecessary pain or harm or cruelty
• The right to your own body parts, organs, fluids and systems
• The right to die naturally, however nature intends for your death to be

All human beings would probably agree that these rights are the minimum rights they would want for themselves and for their children/their families.  To better guarantee we will have these rights we must also  extend these to all who live, not just to some.  To stand for equal rights we must understand that the rights we need for ourselves are rights all who live deserve.  Until we realize this do we not stand for unequal rights?  Discrimination?

Rights do not mean that a dog has a right to drive a car anymore than a human has the right to sprout wings and fly.  It does mean that a pig has a right to be a pig in the same way a dog has the right to be a dog.  If we don’t line up dogs and send them on crowded transports to the slaughter house, then we should not do this to any living being.  All living beings feel pain and mental and emotional trauma.  If we ourselves would not want to be put on a transport to slaughter then we should not do this to any others.  A transport to slaughter should remind us of something else that we have vowed never to repeat.  But are we living up to that? Even if they are not transported, how does slaughter fit in with ‘equal rights’?

This is the one thing in which there is no way around when it comes to animals as food.  No matter how they lived, no matter how anyone’s life has been, if it ends in slaughter can we justify that simply because we perceived they had a ‘good’ life before?  Is slaughter an acceptable end for yourself?  For your dog?  The so-called ‘good life’ on every single farm actually denies the animal every single one of the above listed basic fundamental rights.  The animals are forced to conceive against their will often via industry rape racks, they are not allowed to nurse their own children or to be with them, they are not free for no animal leaves the farm except to go to slaughter, slaughter is unnecessary pain, harm and cruelty, and slaughter is not a natural death.

Every animal, from the milk giver to the egg layer, ends their life in slaughter no matter where they came from, no matter how they lived.

Where does ALL nutrition originate from?

It doesn’t come from me. So please don’t eat me or my friends.

All but two vitamins come from plants and their produce and you can read more about these two vitamins below: they don’t come from animals.  If there were no plants there would be no animals and no human beings.  Plants synthesize vitamins from the sun through the process of photosynthesis.  So really, all nutrition originates from the sun.  Plants are really at the top of the survival chain second to the sun. Without plants all life would cease.

A lot of people voice concerns about eating plants.  Click here and here to learn more. Humans don’t eat plants of course!  We eat the produce of plants, the part that carries the seed and actually helps the plants to propagate aka have kids and continue on.  We are in a symbiotic relationship with plants – mutually beneficial! We help them to survive by aiding in their propagation and they help us to survive by providing us energy, nutrients, from the sun.  Some people are concerned that we are eating the animal’s food but animals don’t eat the same plants we do.  We eat the produce of plants. They eat some produce but also lots of grasses and leaves and flowers and bark and pretty much all of the things we humans leave behind.

Only two nutrients do not come from plants and their produce:  Vitamin D which comes from the sun, not milk.  It’s only in milk because it has been added in as a supplement.  Why not just take the supplement yourself – it’s the same thing.  And also Vitamin B-12 which comes from soil and water.  It’s only in an animal because the animal drank water and ate plants straight from the soil just as humans used to do before very recent modern times.  Today 99.99% of food animals are denied access to natural waterways and pasture’s soil so they are given a vitamin supplement to keep them alive.  Why not just take the B-12 supplement yourself?

The text books, such as  Sports Nutrition by McArdle, Katch and Katch, for those seeking to become a Registered Dietician at a United States regionally accredited four year university clearly state that animals obtain vitamins from the plants, seeds, grains, and fruits they eat or from eating other animals that have eaten these. Plants synthesize amino acids (protein).  In contrast animals, including humans and the animals that humans consume, do not possess broad capability for protein synthesis; they ingest their protein from plants or from animals that consumed plants.

Nutrition comes from plants and produce, soil, water, and the sun.

Peace my friends <3