Why Vegan?

We’ve adopted a vegetarian-approaching-vegan lifestyle after discovering information that we had previously never encountered, or had chosen to ignore. This was certainly not the easiest information to digest, but now we wish we had discovered it 10 years earlier! It includes several decades of research on health, nutrition and anatomy; a range of environmental concerns; economics and human rights; and animal rights. For an explanation of why we say “approaching-vegan,” please see the Veganism Defined link.

Anyone interested in such a lifestyle change must ultimately do their own homework; but as a starting point, I suggest a few links below:

Site for The China Study, the largest human nutrition study ever conducted (The product of a 20-year partnership between Cornell, Oxford and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine)
Cleveland Clinic Foundation cardiologist Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., MD, research on preventing heart attacks
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, information on the protein myth
Bizarro.com contrast of human/carnivore anatomy (In humorous cartoon format; click on the “talking pig video.”)
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, information on vegetarian and vegan diets
Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary
ChooseVeg.com information on making the switch
“The Meatrix” (Educational cartoon on factory farming, environmental and public health impacts, and animal rights issues)
“Meat Your Meat” (Video focused primarily on animal rights issues)