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“Our patients will no longer wake up from surgery to be greeted with ham, cheese, milk, and eggs. The very foods that may have contributed to their health problems in the first place.”
A hospital says it is the first in the world to ditch animal products and
serve its patients a 100 percent vegan menu.
Hayek Hospital is a family-owned private practice located in Beirut, Lebanon. On
March 1, it altered its menu to exclusively feature plant-based foods.
Vegan hospital
The hospital revealed the news on Instagram. It uploaded a picture stating: “Our
patients will no longer wake up from surgery to be greeted with ham, cheese,
milk, and eggs. The very foods that may have contributed to their health
problems in the first place.”
Hayek captioned the post: “There’s an elephant in the room that no one wants to
see.
“The World Health Organization classifies processed meat as a group 1A
carcinogenic – [the] same group as tobacco – and red meat as a group 2A
carcinogenic. So, serving meat in a hospital is like serving cigarettes in a
hospital.
“The CDC declared that three out of four new or emerging infectious diseases
come from animals.
“Adopting a plant-based diet has been scientifically proven not only to stop the
evolution of certain diseases but it can also reverse them.
“We have the moral responsibility to act upon and align our beliefs with our
actions. Taking the courage to look at the elephant in the eye.”
Should hospitals serve processed meat?
Last year, a survey showed a staggering 83 percent of patients favor hospitals
banning processed meat to ‘reduce cancer risk’.
The data came from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) who
surveyed 200 patients in two Washington D.C hospitals.
It also found that 69 percent of patients feel it is ‘not important’ that
hospitals offer bacon or sausage.
Dr. Neal Barnard is the President of PCRM. He said: “Now it’s clear that
patients overwhelmingly agree that they’d like to see healthy food on their
hospital trays.
“It’s not uncommon for patients to wake up from surgery to be greeted with bacon
and sausage. [These are] the very foods that may have contributed to their
health problems in the first place. It’s time to create a healthier food
environment.”
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