Vegan healty diet, no protein deficiency

Don’t worry about protein:

“The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that men and women obtain 5% of their calories as protein.  This would mean 38 grams of protein for a man burning 3000 calories a day and 29 grams for a woman using 2300 calories a day.  This quantity of protein is impossible to avoid when daily calorie needs are met by unrefined starches and vegetables. For example, rice alone would provide 71 grams of highly usable protein and white potatoes would provide 64 grams of protein.” John A. McDougall, MD

Milk products is bad for your health: http://www.drmcdougall.com/med_hot_calcium.html
So is eggs: http://drmcdougall.com/misc/2005nl/march/050300pueastereggs.htm

A vegan diet is good for your health: “It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.”

Quote: http://www.eatright.org/About/Content.aspx?id=8357

Some more information about nutrition you can find on this website: http://www.drmcdougall.com/medical_nutrition.html
and these lectures:
http://www.youtube.com/user/drmcdougallmd
Getting all nutrition as a vegan is very easy.

You will notice that you will have a good appetite and can eat lots of food. As long as you eat a healthy vegan diet without oils [1] and refined foods, this is nothing to worry about.

Butter hurts our health, and hurts and kills cows

Hello,
Butter from animals, like all animal products, increases the risk of heart attack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYTf0z_zVs0

and causes other health problems: http://www.adelicatebalance.com.au/

Most importantly, it is not right to use, exploit, enslave, hurt and kill  animals for butter, which is done in the milk industry. Cows are forcefully impregnated, their reproductive organs are exploited and their calves are stolen.
Cows, horses, and other animals are consciousness just like we are, and they have the same right as us to live their life without being exploited, enslaved, hurt and killed. They value their lives, family and friends, and we have no right to take this from them.
I recommend this lecture: http://vimeo.com/17538152 and www.vegankit.com
Have a nice day!

Jainism, veganism, Ahimsa and milk products

Manish Jain,

[I extended my comment some that I wrote in the other thread.. ]
It is sad that they conflict the very basic principle of Jainism. It is objective that consuming animal products is causing Himsa (violence), just like all domestication does. It is impossible to deny that violence is commited against the animals. And according to Jainism human and nonhuman animals are equal, so I don't understand how they can justify enslaving animals and exploiting their reproductive organs without the consent of the cow, let alone the massive killing of 1 million male calves that occurs in India per year because of the milk industry.

Basically their argument is assuming that it is morally right to rely on a long established tradition of eating milk products. They let a long established tradition overrule the very basic principle of Jainism - Ahimsa.

Violence anywhere hurts everyone everywhere. It is impossible to justify violence and at the same time advocate the principle of Ahimsa. Justifying commiting violence against cows for the taste or convenience of milk products, creates such a big 'exception' for Ahimsa, that it justifies any and all violence against any being.

But we all know why the tradition-argument doesn't hold. The lack of understanding is due to the disconnectedness that comes by participating in violence and exclusion towards other sentient beings.
Also this book by Will Tuttle is good in creating the understanding of the necessity of veganism: http://www.worldpeacediet.org/
Maybe it also could help them to understand that the animal slavery has resulted in human slavery, oppression against women, and other forms of oppression that is rampant in our society. This book covers this: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-15188-7/animal-oppression-and-human-violence#.UZAIageHrdk.facebook

Lacto-ovo-vegetarian choices hurts animals. Vegan choices respects animals

Hello Brandy! Just would like to share this in order to be helpful!
Regarding the cheese in the recipe: Did you know that buying and eating milk products, is resulting in inflicting unnecessary suffering and death to sentient cows, who all love and value their own lives, and their families and friends, as much as we value or own life, families and friends. They are enslaved, they are impregnated each year and their babies are stolen from them within a few days, their male calves are killed within some months in the States and sold as meat, they are killed at about an age of 5 years when the industry doesn’t regard them as profitable anymore, they are milked without their approval, the calves don’t get the cow milk they need and get to live all their short life without their mothers, they are enslaved by mans domestication, despite that they want to live in freedom.

We all believe that it is morally wrong to inflict unnecessary suffering and death upon animals is morally wrong, and consuming animal products is surely causing this: http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/what-michael-vick-taught-us/ And we have no nutritional need for animal products, it is detrimental to our health and is causing diseases: http://www.adelicatebalance.com.au/ I became vegan (i.e. stopped using and consuming animal and their products) this autumn when I realized all this.
I highly recommend this lecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvZpF1R6GUo
All animals are consciousness and they deserve to be treated with respect, love and compassion just like all other conscious beings (e.g. us humans).

All the best! Peace and love, Anders

Milk industry hurts and kills animals, and is taking calves away from their mothers

Did you know this about milk products:
They are bad for our health, just like all animal products: see: http://www.adelicatebalance.com.au/ . Drinking milk and eating milk products hurts and kills other conscious beings who love and value their life as much as we value our life.
The milk industry and all other animal industry is causing so much suffering and death to these wonderful cows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcQ6yBEE5N0&feature=player_embedded
Families are divided, 5-year old milk cows and male calves are killed, mother cows and their babies are separted for always after some hours, or at most after some days, it destroys families and peer relations. Learn more about what they go through here: http://www.vegankit.com/why
I recommend this wonderful lecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLgGnP0pWzM