The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
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Neal Barnard
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About Neal Barnard
Neal D. Barnard is an American physician, researcher, animal rights advocate, and founding president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). Barnard has authored books advocating a whole-food, plant-based diet.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Neal BarnardIn my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.
Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.
A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chic…
I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.