It's Ethical to Eat In The Healthy & Active Way

Nowadays, eating  in the Healthy and Active way  could qualify as being a form of ethical activism. It defies the usual rituals of eating dairy, meat and eggs.  The farming and consumption of these products en masse has affected the balance every single one of us on every level from the personal to the local to the global.  Consumption of these foods has cost us our health, smaller businesses and contributed to pollution and global warming.

Eating Less Meat Is Better For the Planet

Farming animals is one of the main causes of water shortage in the western United States. Farming animals require between three and eleven times the water required to grow an equivalent s crop.

 

Sadly, more than 90 percent of the Amazon rain forest cleared since 1970, or about 45,000 square miles, is now being used by the meat industry, either for land for cattle to graze on or to grow crops to feed farm animals. The runoff from factory farms is laced with feces, bacteria, hormones, and antibiotics, which can dangerously affect our arable soil and drinking water.

Furthermore, farming animals causes almost forty percent more greenhouse gas emissions then all the trucks, planes and cars in the world. The digestive processes of farmed animals (including their excrement, which is 130 times that produced by the U.S. human population); combine to release astounding amounts of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide into the atmosphere.  This gaseous pollution, in turn, contributes to global warming.

Eating Less Meat Promotes Less Violence

When you become vegan you are also making a strong statement against violence and cruelty to animals. Close to 10 billion animals, (not including fish) are slaughtered every year for food.  Many of these animals are raised in inhuman conditions and slaughtered in ways that most of us could not watch for two minutes on a video.

In Texas alone, feedlots produce more than 14 million pounds of particulate dust that just flies into the air and is sits in the atmosphere. This musty mix contains biologically active organisms such as bacteria, mold, and fungi from the feces and the feed causing allergies and sickness. Enormous animal waste ponds also emit airborne poisons that can cause inflammatory immune problems in humans.

On top of that, the EPA has found that 80 percent of the toxic ammonia gas in the United States comes from the excrement of farmed animals.

Eating Less Refined Foods

Part of the Healthy and Active Lifestyle is eating less processed foods. In fact, eating none at all is preferable.

Reflect on the good you can do in the world if you decide to lead a lifestyle that is more healthy and active. It is not only good for you, it’s good for the planet.