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# eating animals -- why still do it?
by: Owen Gunden

2012-11-29

tags: vegan
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Eating animal foods can be incredibly confusing. We see ourselves as kind,
caring, even generous people who treat our friends, family, neighbors and pets
with love and respect. Yet day in and day out, we are faced with the
contradiction which is sitting on our plates: an innocent creature was killed
to bring us this meal.

The example of long-term, healthy vegans shines a light on this contradiction
like none other. It's hard to justify the need to eat animals with so many
counterexamples out there. Can you really believe that eating animals is good
for health when doctors are using a vegan diet to [reverse heart disease][1],
[reverse diabetes][2], and [slow cancer][3]? When there are [hundreds of vegan
athletes][4], many performing better on a vegan diet than ever before?

It's hard to conclude that we eat animals for any reason other than cultural
momentum. And I expect that this subtly repressed fact rubs most of us more
than we care to admit.

[1]: http://www.heartattackproof.com/
[2]: http://blogs.webmd.com/life-with-diabetes-2/2010/05/low-fat-vegan-diet-for-reversing-diabetes.html
[3]: http://www.pcrm.org/health/cancer-resources
[4]: http://www.greatveganathletes.com/

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