Jones-Shoeman's Four Reasons Why People Become Vegan

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Jones-Shoeman, Cindy. “Four Reasons Why People Become Vegan’” Naturalnews.com. Naturalnews.com, 2 Jan. 2011. Web. 2 Jan. 2011

In this article, the author talks about the reasons why people become vegan and vegetarian. The first reason it is the health, most of them have healthy diets because they can’t eat some foods. Vegans get more fiber than the normal people because they don’t eat meat. Also, they don’t eat cholesterol either and this fact benefits their body. In fact, vegan people tend to weigh less than people who eat animal products. The second one is the environment, the author supports that eat-eating diet contributes indirectly to deforestation, also cattle produces large amounts of methane and the methane contributes to global warming. Many people that become vegan or vegetarian feel good when they know that are helping the environment. The third reason, are the ethical reasons that talks about Vegan people that care for animals, they just don’t want to eat something tat had to die. In addition, they don’t want any animal exploited for any reason. The last
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But this step doesn’t mean that it will last forever. In fact, being vegan can be for months or just for a few weeks. According to some vegan societies, people go vegan for 7 or 30 days. Comparing 2012 and 2013 periods, 40% of the people adopted this temporary menu in the first two months of those years. In 2014, 3,200 changed their menu for the first month of the year. Many people don’t adopt veganism because they are against animal products in principle. Most of them must have being inspired from famous singers and figures such as Beyonce and Jay-Z whom went began for 22 days and they said it was part of a spiritual and physical cleanse. Other examples are former US president Bill Clinton, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and film director James

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