alternative diets

alternative diets

going vegan/vegetarian

Vegan Vegetarian

VEGETARIANISM VS VEGANISM

Vegetarianism

If you follow a vegetarian diet, that means you don’t eat meat, poultry, or fish. If you’re following a vegan diet, you don’t eat meat, poultry, or fish. You also don’t consume dairy products, eggs, or other animal products, like gelatin or honey.

Vegan

The environment

Polluting the air

Producing a little more than 2 pounds of beef causes more greenhouse-gas emissions than driving a car for three hours.

Polluting the water

Each day, factory farms produce billions of pounds of manure, which ends up in lakes, rivers, and drinking water.

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Reasons to go vegan

Be carefull and think about your health first

Basing your diet only on your activism can lead you to make poor decisions about your health

Reasons to go vegan

The environment

Your health

The animals

The animals

Roughly 60 billion land animals and over a trillion marine animals are used and killed as commodities per year, merely to satisfy human taste preferences

250000000

Portuguese popultion vs Number of animals killed in Portugal per year

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Your health

Those following a vegan diet may want to be extra careful to ensure they are consuming enough iron, zinc, vitamin D, calcium, and omega-3 fatty acids. Vegans are also at a high risk of developing a Vitamin-B12 deficiency that, if untreated, can potentially cause neurological effects that are irreversible.

• Good for heart health
• Reduces cancer risk
• Prevents type 2 diabetes
• Lowers blood pressure
• Decreases asthma symptoms
• Promotes bone health

Some tips and advices

Some food swaps

tofu

instead of eggs

chickpea

as a main dish

peanut butter

instead of butter

vegetable milks

instead of milk

textured vegetable protein

instead of beef

Find out how many animals you could save if you go vegan today

Open the Veganalyser

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