Vegan Diet Research Paper
The vegan diet is becoming more and more popular as an ever-increasing number of high-profile celebrities, including film stars, sports stars and even politicians (for example, ex-US president Bill Clinton) "go vegan".
A vegan diet (otherwise known as a plant-based diet) is one that does not contain any animal products at all. Most people know that the vegetarian diet is one that does not include any meat products but the vegan diet also excludes all dairy products and also eggs and honey - in fact, any product that comes from an animal, and this will include such ingredients as the food additive cochineal, which is made from the crushed bodies of female insects.
So why do people adopt a vegan diet? There are three significant reasons why …show more content…
The United Nations has produced multiple reports showing that the livestock industry has a significant, negative impact on the environment. This is because it takes a lot of land, and a lot of food and water to keep livestock animals alive so that we can access their milk, eggs and flesh (which we get, of course, when we kill the animals). It varies from species to species but, on average, it takes around eight pounds of grain (that is fed to animals) for us to get one pound of meat. And whereas it takes around 1,000 litres of water for an acre of crops it takes around 100,000 litres to be given to animals on the equivalent amount of land. So we have to use up a lot of land and water that we give to animals - who themselves take up a lot of land (we raise around 60 billion livestock animals a year, and they take up a lot of room!). One of the major reasons for the destruction of the rainforests, including the Amazon rainforest, is to clear land to make way for growing grain, which is then given to livestock animals to eat. At the same time, we are also damaging the marine environment as we are taking around 1.5-2 trillion sea animals out of the seas and oceans every year - causing a major imbalance in the ecosystem and leaving large parts of the underwater world completely bereft of life. So vegans see adopting a plant-based diet as making good sense for trying to look after the
A vegan diet (otherwise known as a plant-based diet) is one that does not contain any animal products at all. Most people know that the vegetarian diet is one that does not include any meat products but the vegan diet also excludes all dairy products and also eggs and honey - in fact, any product that comes from an animal, and this will include such ingredients as the food additive cochineal, which is made from the crushed bodies of female insects.
So why do people adopt a vegan diet? There are three significant reasons why …show more content…
The United Nations has produced multiple reports showing that the livestock industry has a significant, negative impact on the environment. This is because it takes a lot of land, and a lot of food and water to keep livestock animals alive so that we can access their milk, eggs and flesh (which we get, of course, when we kill the animals). It varies from species to species but, on average, it takes around eight pounds of grain (that is fed to animals) for us to get one pound of meat. And whereas it takes around 1,000 litres of water for an acre of crops it takes around 100,000 litres to be given to animals on the equivalent amount of land. So we have to use up a lot of land and water that we give to animals - who themselves take up a lot of land (we raise around 60 billion livestock animals a year, and they take up a lot of room!). One of the major reasons for the destruction of the rainforests, including the Amazon rainforest, is to clear land to make way for growing grain, which is then given to livestock animals to eat. At the same time, we are also damaging the marine environment as we are taking around 1.5-2 trillion sea animals out of the seas and oceans every year - causing a major imbalance in the ecosystem and leaving large parts of the underwater world completely bereft of life. So vegans see adopting a plant-based diet as making good sense for trying to look after the