Try vegan this month! Start the new year off by helping your health, the planet and the animals!
It is a charity inspiring people to try Vegan for the month January (and the rest of the year too!)
Why try Vegan?
Why try Vegan?
There are MANY reasons, for many it is their love of animals. For many it is health as it is a healthy life style (although there are many UNHEALTHY ways to be a vegan as well). For others they want to impact the World! Being Vegan is one of the easiest and best ways to help with global warming and save our beautiful Earth. There is NO wrong reason to try being Vegan!
Myths of being Vegan!
⭐ But, where do you get your protein? A very common misconception is that you have to consume meat to get enough protein. Yes, meat does contain protein, but it is NOT the only place to get protein! Green veggies, beans, lentils, grains and nuts are all excellent sources of protein! There are really SO many ways to make sure you have enough protein in your diet without consuming any animals!
⭐ Doesn't soy/soya contain estrogen and known to lower testosterone? Soy has NO known effect on testosterone levels. Just make sure to get non GMO, Organic soy products. Soya beans contain isoflavones, which are members of a group of compounds called phytoestrogens. Because isoflavones bind to the same receptors in the body as oestrogen, a misconception has built up about soya. The bottom line is that isoflavones are not the same as oestrogen, and do not have the same effect as oestrogen.
⭐ Don't cows HAVE to be milked? Won't they explode or die if they aren't? A cow can only produce milk if she gives birth to a calf. The cows on dairy farms are impregnated every year so that they continuously supply milk. In a natural setting, cows would fall pregnant normally, calves would suckle from their mothers, and milking by humans would be completely unnecessary. On these farms, however, the calves are taken from their mothers only a day or two after they’re born. This is to maximize on the milk produced by their mothers for human consumption. Female calves are then raised as milk producers, slaughtered immediately or possibly sold for veal production. Male calves have only two options: they are transported for veal production, where they are confined in small pens or crates, with restricted movement and no natural light and then slaughtered at six months; or they are killed straight away and sold as low grade meat. Cows can live for up to 20 years. On dairy farms the average age of a milk producing cow is less than five years old.
Great cookbooks for starters! I will link some AMAZING Vegan cookbooks for those of you who want to take the challenge! These are cookbooks that I own in my kitchen that I LOVE and use on a regular basis!
Hope you all will give Vegan January a try! Cheers to a Happy & Healthy New Year!
Peace! ☮
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