15 Statements About the Benefits of Vegan Food

98% of Chinese would shift vegan after learning the benefits. A survey by ProVeg International, an organization working to change the global food system, indicates that almost every person in China would eat more vegan foods if they learned how a vegan diet is beneficial. The poll was conducted in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou with 1,000 people who are primarily omnivores or flexitarians.

The surveyors provided the following 15 statements about the benefits of vegan food:

1. The healthiest, most sustainable diets are predominantly made up of vegan (plant-based) foods.

2. Balanced vegan diets tend to lower body mass index (BMI) and reduce obesity rates, hence lowering rates of heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.

3. Balanced vegan diets can help prevent and manage type 2 diabetes.

4. Balanced vegan diets can help to reduce the risk of breast cancer.

5. Vegan diets lower the risk of developing antibiotic resistance due to animal-based food. In China, more than half of the antibiotics are utilized toward animal raising. When bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics, infections caused by these bacteria become more difficult to treat, leading to increased medical costs and mortality rates. Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest threats to current global health, food safety, and development.

6. Vegan foods, especially beans, legumes, and lentils, offer adequate protein for humans, free from cholesterol and unhealthy saturated animal fat compared to animal-based foods.

7. Green vegetables, such as kale, Chinese cabbage, spinach, and cabbage, are rich in calcium content. Some have even higher bioavailability than dairy products.

8. By eating various iron-rich vegan foods (such as tofu, lentils, quinoa, and sesame seeds) in combination with fruits and vegetables high in vitamin C, people can avoid iron deficiency.

9. Vegan diets are more energy efficient and effective than animal agriculture in terms of the use of natural resources (e.g. arable land, fresh water, energy, etc.)

10. Animal agriculture is responsible for up to 20% of greenhouse gas emissions. Compared to omnivore diets, vegan diets can cut down greenhouse gas emissions by more than 50%.

11. Beef and dairy are among the biggest sources of human- caused methane emissions. Methane is about 80 times more potent than CO2 in terms of its warming effect over the first 20 years after being released into the atmosphere. Moving towards vegan diets can reduce diet related methane emissions by up to 90%.

12. Vegan diets can help reduce world hunger. More than 75% of soy harvest is used as animal feed. The same resources could be allocated to grow human food and more people could be fed, contributing to national food security.

13. Every year, 80 billion land animals and up to 2.3 trillion marine animals are slaughtered. A plant-forward diet can significantly reduce the intentional slaughter of animals and helps protect wildlife and ecosystems.

14. Animal raising operations use 80% of arable land, have caused up to 70% of rainforest destruction, and therefore are a major contributor to biodiversity loss. About 25% of all species currently face extinction, and about 88% of species will lose their habitats by 2050. A vegan diet will help free up natural resources of land, water, and rainforest, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and protect biodiversity.

15. Plant-rich diets offer a wide variety of flavors from fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes and nuts and can lead to delicious and satisfying meals.

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