Personal well-being

As demonstrated by the athletes and research featured in The Game Changers, switching to a diet centered around plants can yield significant performance advantages, providing optimal fuel, increasing blood flow, making muscles more efficient, and speeding recovery by lowering inflammation.

Research shows that a whole food plant-based dietary lifestyle can prevent about 90% of heart disease, and in many cases even reverse it.

Science confirms link between consuming animal protein and “turning on” cancer cells. Professional athletes agree in The Game Changers that plant protein is the best, and safest, source of protein.

A whole-food, plant-based diet is a powerful tool for preventing, managing, and even reversing type 2 diabetes. Not only is this the most delicious ‘prescription’ you can imagine, but it’s also easy to follow. Plus, all the ‘side effects’ are good ones.

Plant-based diets should be considered a viable option for patients who are interested in losing weight and improving dietary quality consistent with chronic disease prevention and treatment. – Journal of Geriatric Cardiology

“Animal protein makes food prices more expensive” says Pepperdine Nutrition Professor Loan Kim. Research published in the Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition found that eating a vegetarian diet is cheaper than a meat-based diet. Also, this UC Davis Integrative Medicine article discusses saving healthcare costs from medication to hospitalization.

More than 50% of all streams and rivers are unsuitable for aquatic life, and the ‘dead zone’ in the Gulf of Mexico (and other coastal waters) grows each year because of nutrient pollution caused by farming practices developed to match global demand for meat. 

Animal agriculture contributes up to 51% of greenhouse gas emissions annually through methane from livestock digestion, carbon dioxide from clearing and burning forests, and nitrous oxide from increased use of nitrogen fertilizers. 

Replacing 50 percent of animal products in one’s diet with plants results in a 30 percent reduction in an individual’s food-related water footprint. Going vegan, reduces that water footprint by almost 60 percent.

Industrialized fishing methods using satellite technology leave 75% of all major ‘Wild Caught’ fisheries overfished resulting in subsitience fishing communities losing their food & livelihood. Some of these fishing methods (bottom trawling and longline fishing) cause bycatch – accidentally catching 70% of marine life only to toss them back dead.

“A major culprit is the cultivation of soy… the vast majority (of which) is processed and exported as animal feed in a commodities trade that serves a global appetite for hamburgers, chicken and pork.” – Amazon Deforestation, Once Tamed, Comes Roaring Back, New York Times

Animal agriculture is responsible for 91% of the Amazon rainforests destruction

262 billion animals killed every year
170 million animals killed every day
7 million animals killed every hour
2,000 animals killed every second!

(if we add Fish that number grows to almost 3 TRILLION a year....)