If you haven’t thought much about the egg industry, it’s natural to wonder, “Why don’t vegans eat eggs?” On the surface, it doesn’t seem like there’s a problem. Chickens naturally lay eggs, which most people think are healthy to eat – what’s the issue? The answer is that vegans don’t eat eggs because they avoid …
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Many people erroneously believe that buying local meat from small-scale animal farms will solve the environmental, public health and ethical issues of factory farming. Firstly, 70% of cows and about 99% of other animal products in the U.S. come from factory farms. And despite marketing messages that want you to believe small farms are a …
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In the future, a minor condition like an ear infection, strep throat, or an infected cut could be deadly. Medical treatments like chemotherapy, treatment for premature babies and organ transplants, may be too risky to perform. Some scientists estimate that by 2050, 10 million people a year will die from antibiotic-resistant infections, surpassing the number …
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MyPlate dairy recommendations continue to misrepresent dairy as a health food. Yet researchers have known for decades about the link between dairy and many chronic diseases like cancer. Why is this? And what’s so bad about dairy? Dairy wreaks havoc on our health Cow’s milk is not the wholesome product we’ve been led to believe …
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Three out of every four emerging infectious diseases come from an animal source. There are hundreds of thousands of pathogens out there that could spill over as the next pandemic. To know how to prevent future pandemics, we must understand how inextricable our use of animals is from the emergence of major past and present …
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