Green Citizen – A Lifestyle Choice: Vegan Diet Heals Our Body, Planet and World Hunger

Green Citizen – A Lifestyle Choice

The Diet with Amazing Healing Power!

By Peggy Ong

ITE Eco-Conference 2012


Guess her age



Guess his age



• Grandmother of 7
• Vegetarian at age 32
• Raw vegan at age 69



Jim Morris Unknown

• Vegetarian at age 50
• Vegan at age 65



He’s 100!
• Fauja Singh
• Marathon Runner
• Covered 30km in 8 hours
11 minutes
• World Recordholder at age
100



She’s 73! She’s 70! She’s 65! She’s 53!

Mimi Kirk Annette Larkins Karyn Calabrese Tonya Zavasta

He’s 77! He’s 100! He’s 62!

Jim Morris Fauja Singh Storm Talifero



Vegan Power!

Carl Lewis : 9-time Olympic Gold Medalist
Patrik Baboumian : Germany’s strongest man


Vegan Power!

Dave Scott :
6-time Ironman Champion

Ang Hwee :
National Weightlifter and
Coach for YOG 2010

John Salley :
4-time NBA champion

Gorilla can lift as
heavy as 30 adult Elephant can carry as heavy as 130
humans. adult humans.



Vegan Diet Heals our Body



What does Bill Clinton and Khaw Boon Wan
have in common?
 Prominent statesmen
 Heart bypass surgery
 Adopted the plant-based
or vegan diet
 Common source of inspiration:
The work of Dr Caldwell Esselstyn
of the world renowned Cleveland
(USA) Clinic and author of
“Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease”.

Dr Esselstyn’s Quote:
“Heart Disease need never exist,
and if it exists, it need never persist.”


‘Forks Over Knives’ Trailer


Harvard School of Public Health: Limit dairy and red meat
Replace
Extracted from http://www.hsph.harvard.edu: Out-dated
“………., high intake (of dairy) can increase the risk of Food Pyramid
prostate cancer and possibly ovarian cancer.
Limit milk/dairy
Plus, dairy products can be high in saturated fat as well as
retinol (vitamin A), which at high levels can paradoxically
weaken bones.”
Limit red meat
avoid bacon,
“Animal protein and vegetable protein probably have the cold cuts and
same effects on health. It's the protein package that's likely other processed
to make a difference…..” meat

Beans and nuts
“……Research suggests that people who eat modest are alternative
amounts of red meat have a higher risk of developing colon sources of protein
cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, and a higher risk of
dying from heart disease, cancer, or any cause.”


Meat-out Long Life!

The most impressive data arises from a study of 1904 vegetarians over 21 years
by the German Cancer Research Center:
• Vegetarian men reduced their risk of early death by 50%
• Women vegetarians benefit from a 30% reduction in mortality

A 12-year study that followed over 60,000 Britons, half of whom were
vegetarian:
Vegetarians are 45% less likely to contract leukaemia, stomach and
bladder cancers than meat eaters.


Vegan Diet Heals our Planet



Bangkok Flood

Northern China Drought Hurricane Katrina

Global Warming
Cambodia Flood Crisis Is Here.
Singapore Flood
Can’t we hear our Mother Earth crying?

If all Antarctica glacier were to melt,
Diminished food and
sea level could rise up to 70 metres! Wild Forest Fire
water supplies


World Leaders on Climate Change



If all Americans didn't eat meat for just one day a week, this would save the same CO2
emissions as 90 million plane tickets from New York to LA or from LA to New York.
90 million tickets, each year, just by eating no meat for just one day a week!
Source: http://www.meatthetruth.nl/en/


Meat production takes up 70% of the world’s agricultural land
UN 2006 Report

•Only 30% of the world’s agricultural land
is used to produce food for human!
•Worldwide Deforestation Rate:
36 football fields / min
•It takes 33 times more land to support
the lifestyle of an omnivore than it does
to support a vegan.

Hard Truth: In Amazon, nearly 100% of the deforested land is used by
livestock & feed. To date, 50% of the world’s rainforest is lost.

• Eat 1 burger = deforest 6 sq. m. of land
• Eat 4 burgers = deforest the size of a classroom
• Eat 12 burgers = deforest the size of a HDB 3-room flat


Livestock – the #1 Cause of Global Warming



51% of Global Greenhouse Gas Emission is Caused By Livestock
More than global transportation all combined! Worldwatch Institute

Refrigeration of Carcass

Methane
fart
Methane
burp


Documentary Film ‘The End Of The Line’



Chia Seeds
gives us
7.7 times
as much
Omega-3
as
Salmon!



Vegan Diet Heals World Hunger
And Water Shortage



More than 50% of world’s crops feed the animals, not people
UNEP 2010 Report

Hard Truth: 1 Billion People Suffer from Hunger Annually

Only 2.5% of Earth’s water is freshwater.
70% of world’s freshwater is used to produce food.
UN 2012 World Water Day

A person needs to drink 2 to 4 litres of water a day.
But we virtually eat 2000 to 5000 litres of water!
1 billion people lack access to clean water.
To produce 1 kg of Amount of Water Needed
And 10 times
Tomato 180 litres
Wheat 1500 litres
Rice 2500 litres
Chicken 4300 litres
Pork 6000 litres
Beef 15,500 litres



Vegan Diet Saves Lives



What’s Really Going On At Factory Farms?
Conveyor belt leads the male chicks into a grinder.

Debeak without anesthesia Filthy and overcrowded living condition.


Dairy cow in labour

Male calves are slaughtered for Veal or Leather.

Injected with hormones Artificial Insemination



Gestation Crate Farrowing Crate

Castrated without anesthesia Teeth cut without anesthesia


60 billion land animals are unnaturally bred & slaughtered for food globally.
Farmed animals live in filthy conditions and are tortured from birth.
Injected with growth hormones and regular dose of antibiotics.
Peta.org


Veggie Insight!

Biz Stone
(Twitter Co-founder, a vegan for a decade
and investing in a vegan meat company)

Mark Zuckerberg
(Facebook Founder almost a vegetarian
Albert Einstein eats animals he kills)
since he only



Veggie Genius!

M. Gandhi Sir Isaac Newton

Leonardo Da Vinci

Brian Greene Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein


Veggie Divas!
Natalie
Portman Faye
(vegan) Wong

Barbie Hsu
（大S）

Anne Hathaway

Ellen
Degeneres (vegan)
Kate Winslet Pamela Anderson (vegan)
Maggie Q (vegan)


Veggie Hunks!

Jason Mraz Jacky
Cheung
Mike Tyson

Simon
Cowell

Tobey
Maguire

Brad Pitt Chris Wang Michael Clarke Duncan


Less Meat Now!
Where to dine?
Popular Blogger:
http://www.hungryangmo.com/

What to cook?
Google keywords:
COURTESY VEGAN BURG
asian vegetarian tofu recipes / vegan pasta recipes, etc

Join us in this noble diet!
COURTESY LOVING HUT
 Weekday Vegan
 Weekend Vegan
 Monday & Thursday Vegan
 Breakfast & Lunch Vegan
COURTESY PEGGY ONG

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