The Top Ten Dairy & Meat Industry Lies
Food Hazards in Animal Flesh and By-products from All-Creatures.org Vegan Health Articles

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From Robert Cohen, NotMilk.com
June 2011

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth 
when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
- H. L. Mencken

The top ten most powerful employees of the dairy industry are compensated an average of $500,000 per year in salary and benefits. It is virtually impossible to be paid so much money and not follow the "company" line.

By eating animal products, one shows no compassion to the human body. By eating dirty fuel consisting of cholesterol, saturated animal fat, and relatively large amounts of sulfur-based amino acids (methionine and cysteine), one places considerable stress upon the body's skeletal, cardiovascular and immune systems.

It is easer for the fairy and meat industry to purchase a doctor's integrity, than it is for a loser-of-a-man to purchase the favors of a streetwalker.

Ten lies promoted by those who would have you eat meat and cheese:

1) Meat eaters have lower rates of heart disease than do vegetarians.

THE REAL SCIENCE:

"Significant atherosclerosis is rare in peoples whose diet over the life span is predominantly vegetarian and low in calories, total lipids, saturated lipids and cholesterol."

Nutrition and Athersclerosis by Louis Katz. 1958

2) Meat eaters have lower rates of all of humankind's major diseases than do vegetarians.

THE REAL SCIENCE:

"Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for several chronic degenerative diseases and conditions, including obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer."

Journal of American Dietetic Association, 11/97, 97(1)

3) Vegetarians have higher mortality rates than meat eaters.

THE REAL SCIENCE:

"Vegetarians often have lower mortality rates from several chronic degenerative diseases than do non vegetarians."

British Medical Journal, 1996; 313

4) A vegetarian diet is not appropriate for a pregnant woman or nursing mother.

THE REAL SCIENCE:

"Vegan diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including during pregnancy and lactation."

Am J Clin Nutr. 1994;59(suppl):1176S-1181S.

5) Children born to vegetarians are smaller than children born to meat eaters.

THE REAL SCIENCE:

"Vegan diets can meet the nutrient and energy needs of pregnant women. Birth weights of infants born to well nourished vegetarian women have been shown to be similar to birth-weight norms and to birth weights of infants of non vegetarians."

Pediatrics. 1989;84

6) Meat eaters obtain more vitamins and nutrients than vegetarians, because the animals they eat also consume vegetables.

THE REAL SCIENCE:

"Vegetarian diets offer disease protection benefits because higher concentration of antioxidants such as vitamins C and E, carotenoids, and phytochemicals."

Am J Clin Nutr. 1996;63(suppl)

7) It is a proven fact that vegetarians have higher rates of heart disease than meat eaters.

THE REAL SCIENCE:

"Mortality from coronary artery disease is lower in vegetarians than in non vegetarians."

British Medical Journal, 1994; 308

8) Meat eaters have lower rates of diabetes than do vegetarians.

THE REAL SCIENCE:

"Type 2 diabetes mellitus is less likely to be a cause of death in vegetarians than non vegetarians."

Am J Clin Nutr. 1988;48(suppl)

9) Meat eaters have lower rates of breast cancer than do vegetarians.

THE REAL SCIENCE:

"Breast cancer rates are lower in populations that consume plant based diets."

American Cancer Society Cancer Facts and Figures, 1994

10) Meat eating men make for better lovers because they have higher rates of the male sex hormone.

THE REAL SCIENCE:

"The study measured testosterone levels in 696 Oxford University men. Of the study participants, 233 were vegan (ate no animal products) and 237 were vegetarian (ate milk and dairy products). The remaining 237 subjects were men who ate meat on most days of the week...vegans had higher testosterone levels than vegetarians and meat eaters."

British Journal of Cancer, 83(1), July 2000

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