The Happy Herbivore Guide to Plant-Based Living

When someone asks me why I am plant-based, I explain, “For my health, the plight of farm animals, the environment, the economy, and humanity,” because putting plants on my plate greatly benefits all of those things. In fact, switching to a plant-based diet is the single most positive impact you can make on your health, the environment, and society.

Then, I saw a movie that changed my life—Food, Inc. This started my journey into organic and whole foods, which continued as I learned from documentaries like Forks Over Knives, The Future of Food, Food Matters, and Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead. I also read The RAVE Diet & Lifestyle, The China Study, Green Smoothie Revolution,

vegan and vegetarian diets have been studied since the mid-1980s and have been found to relieve both asthma and allergies!

Dairy contains a naturally occurring hormone called insulin-like growth factor 1, which is one of the most powerful promoters of cancer growth ever discovered for breast, prostate, lung, and colon cancers.5

the dairy myth