A - Z Listing of Daily Facts
- A 12-year Harvard study of nearly 78,000 women, found that women who drank milk three times a day actually broke or fractured more bones than women who drank little to no milk at all.
- A recent study found that higher IQ's in childhood are associated with an increased likelihood of being vegetarian as an adult.
- A vegetarian, including vegan, diet can meet current recommendations for all essential nutrients.
- Calcium absorption from vegetables is better than that of milk.
- Capsaicin (an ingredient found in hot peppers) triggers cancer cell death without harming surrounding healthy cells.
- Chickens are excluded from the U.S. Animal Welfare Act and from the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act.
- Dead cats and dogs from shelters and vet clinics are often mixed into livestock feed for cattle and hogs on factory farms.
- Declawing cats is an unnatural, painful and inhumane act; the surgery is actually an amputation of the last joint of a cat's "toes".
- Research indicates the extract from cranberries inhibits proliferation of human tumor lines, causing an anticancer effect.
- Scientific evidence proves that fish do in fact, feel pain and react to it.
- The USDA recalled 143 million pounds of beef on Feb. 17, 2008, marking the largest meat recall in U.S. history to date.
- The U.S. government is exempt from false advertising laws.
- Throughout ancient history, some of the most revered, influential, and brilliant thinkers of have embraced animal compassion and vegetarian ideology.
- Vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle.
- World Wildlife Fund supports the Canadian seal slaughter (seals are bludgeoned and skinned alive) because “it is not a conservation issue.”
