Health Benefits Of Having A Plant-Based Diet

I know this can be a sensitive subject because people have a strong allegiance tied to certain foods because the connection that food has with our emotions and personal experiences. However, please suspend your immediate reactions and defenses, to hear another side that you may not be aware of. Not consuming animal products and having a plant-based diet is beneficial to people’s health and could make a significant impact on the extermination of world hunger, animal cruelty and animal exploitation. Having a plant-based diet will give countless benefits to our health, planet and have been proven to cure illnesses. You can acquire more vitamins and nutrients from vegetables than any animal product and if you eat enough, will feel the same fullness that you felt when …show more content…
By not purchasing or consuming animal products you can contribute to aid feeding starving people and ending world hunger. It takes 13 pounds of grain to produce only 1 pound of meat! If those crops were directly fed to the people in need, it would feed more and would not require traveling far because most of the starving countries produce the grain that we feed to the animals. The grain would be used much more efficiently and would cost less. The meat that is produced from the 13 pounds of grains is sold to affluent nations, so if the slaughter houses stop working, all the crops would be distributed to the people that truly need it. “Scientists reached the conclusion that if all food crops were fed directly to humans instead of animals, around 70% more food would be added to the world’s supply, which would be enough to feed 4 billion additional people.” (Gentle World) This surplus would be able to feed over half the humans on earth, including the starving people that are suffering everyday. Every person could greatly contribute to ending world hunger, simply think before you