Environment Health: This could be an entire book, and there have been many books published on the topic of how eating a plant based diet will keep our planet green. Read “Food Evolution” by John Robbins for endless scientific details on this subject. While animal welfare and the environment are very important topics it is not the sole reason you should become educated on how not to eat toxic food. My goal is to awaken your mind to furthering your health goals before it is too late. Saving the planet of pollution and helping animals is a wonderful additional positive outcome we get by default of loving ourselves.

 "..raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars and trucks in the world combined." U.N. ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT   While driving a hybrid or electric car might be good, it still does not save our planet as much as changing your eating habits.

Deforestation to provide grazing land, meat, or the raising of cattle is the most destructive to our environment. Second would be dairy products. The only food group which helps in reforestation of the planet is fruit. Every time you eat an apple or a walnut or an avocado, you are voting for orchards. Slaughterhouses dump billions of gallons of raw sewage and urine into our waterways. The Sahara was originally caused by the destruction of trees and their replacement with grazing animals. What is the energy ratio of meat to fruit? Dr. Don Meyers found that l pound of meat takes 80 times the production energy of a pound of fruit. Animals are fed, watered, given veterinary care, slaughtered, frozen in warehouses, on transportation trucks, in freezers at grocery stores and in homes. Then animal flesh is cooked at high temperatures. Compare this to a pear from a tree in your front yard which can grow from a casually tossed seed.

 What about water and our environment? To produce one pound of lettuce or tomatoes it takes approx 23 gallons of water. One pound of beef takes 5214 gallons of water, and cattle farming  pollutes our rivers, steams and oceans. Do we wish to eat foods that are wastefully packaged wrapped, or by Mother Nature in walnut shells, banana peels, and coconut husks.