YOUR HEALTH

People are frequently amazed at the positive impact an eco-friendly, plant-based diet can have on our bodies. Studies continue to show that reducing the amount of meat in your diet has many significant health benefits. Click here to learn more about how you can improve your overall health and wellbeing if you GIVE ME 52!

YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT

According to www.timeforchange.org, your carbon footprint is defined as, "The total amount of greenhouse gases produced to directly or indirectly support human activities, usually expressed in equivalent tons of carbon dioxide (CO2)."

Consider, for a moment, the enormous reach of this definition. Each time you drive your car, the fuel it burns creates CO2. Ditto for the gas, coal, electricity or oil with which you heat your home. Same for the production and transportation of your food --- particularly if your diet includes meat. The negative impact of our comfortable lifestyle grows quickly --- and severely threatens our planet.

Your carbon footprint is the sum of all of the CO2 emissions resulting from all of your contributing activities calculated within a standard one-year window of time. The results are pretty stunning and can leave us overwhelmed and wondering what to do next. Click here to calculate your own carbon footprint and here to learn more about how it impacts your life and our planet.

YOUR COMPASSION

Many believe that animals were placed here with us to serve as foodstuff. Others argue that animals are sentient beings whose innate intelligence yields many stories and considerations about their role in the carbon footprint equation.

A plant-based diet not only reduces your carbon footprint, but it also expands your compassion quotient incrementally, because with each meat-free meal you eat, whatever your motivation, you are saving the lives of animals. And, coupled with those across the country and world, our impact is exponentially heightened and our circle of compassion expands.

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OUR ECOLOGY

By definition, ecology pertains to the relationship between the environment and the living organisms within it. As a result of innumerable abuses to our environment, our ecology is at high risk. Raising animals for food requires massive amounts of land, energy, and water all of which comprise our ecology. What can be done to save it from destruction?

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OUR ENVIRONMENT

Reducing your meat and dairy intake is one of the most important and effective actions you can take to ease the strain on our Earth's limited resources, protect the planet from pollution, prevent global warming, and save countless species from extinction. A 2006 United Nations report found that the meat and dairy industries produce more greenhouse gases than all the SUVs, cars, trucks, planes, and ships in the world combined.

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