The Ultimate "Why Be Vegan" Crash Course (Using Facts & Logic)



Sep 25, 2018
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The ultimate fact and logic based crash course on why you should go vegan.

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♦Watch Theeeeese List♦
• Cowspiracy (documentary) - netflix.com/title/80033772
• NameTheTrait (video) - youtube.com/watch?v=qOgYX6Jqhl...
• Land of Hope and Glory (documentary) - youtube.com/watch?v=dvtVkNofcq...
• Dairy Is Scary (short video) - youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCN...
• Dominion (documentary) - watch.dominionmovement.com/280...


♦Sources♦

•HEALTH•

Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics on Vegan Diets
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/278867...

65% of all people are lactose intolerant
ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/lact...

Vegans have 15% less total cancer
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/268539...

Vegans have 50% decreased risk of getting type 2 diabetes
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/193517...

Cholesterol is the only necessary risk factor for atherosclerosis
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/...

Vegans have lowest risk of heart disease & 75% decreased risk of hypertension (pdf)
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/...

Effects of dietary cholesterol on serum cholesterol
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/...

Whole food plant based diets can reverse heart disease
dresselstyn.com/JFP_06307_Arti...


•ENVIRONMENT•

Sources mostly from cowspiracy.com/facts
(I won't link all sources here due to the 5000 characters limit for the YouTube description box)

Animal agriculture is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than the combined exhaust from all transportation
fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a070...

82% of starving children live in countries where food is fed to animals & the animals are eaten by people in the west
comfortablyunaware.com/blog/th...
fao.org/docrep/014/i2414e/i241...

Animal agriculture is responsible for 91% of amazon destruction
documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/758171468768828889/pdf/277150PAPER0wbwp0no1022.pdf

Animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution, and habitat destruction
comfortablyunaware.wordpress.c...
epa.gov/nutrientpollution/prob...
fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a070... (part 4)
learner.org/courses/envsci/uni...
wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/hand...
people.umass.edu/bethanyb/Wilcove%20et%20al.,%201998.pdf

Per 1 pound of fish caught up to 5 pounds of unintended marine species are caught and discarded as by-kill
fao.org/docrep/W6602E/w6602E09...

We could see fishless oceans by 2048
ioos.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploa...
epa.gov/region1/npdes/schiller...

3/4 of the world’s fisheries are exploited or depleted
fao.org/newsroom/common/ecg/10...


•ETHICS•

Pigs are as intelligent and emotionally compley than dogs
naturalhistorymag.com/features...
escholarship.org/uc/item/8sx4s...

For a cow to produce milk she must first give birth to a calf. Cows are kept pregnant until physical exhaustion
whitelies.org.uk/animal-welfar...
whitelies.org.uk/sites/default...
ciwf.org.uk/farm-animals/cows/...

Dairy calves are taken away from their mothers normally within 24-72 hours of birth
whitelies.org.uk/sites/default... - pg. 9
ciwf.org.uk/media/5235185/the-... - pg. 1

Traumatizing separation of mother and child
viva.org.uk/blog/do-farmed-ani...

Male dairy calves are shot soon after birth and discarded as a by-product
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2...

Male chicks are gassed or ground up alive in all egg industries, including organic
viva.org.uk/resources/video-li...


Music used:
"Talky Beat" Twin Musicom (twinmusicom.org)
"Wretched Destroyer", "Egmont Overture", "Off to Osaka" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
creativecommons.org/licenses/b...


- Check out vgrrr.com for vegan pet food!
- Check Joshua's channel: youtube.com/channel/UCOvI-K_zP...

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