Happy New Years Eve!

So yesterday I posted on my facebook that I started a blog and I got mixed feeling about myself becoming a vegan. Here are the comments left by my friends:


Mat Dias y?

Rochelle Burk Why not?

Mat Dias because you're human, you have incisor teeth, meant to rip apart meat... because for thousdands of years without eating meat humans would have died... because if you look at biology to sustain life you must consumer other living things and being a vegan goes against the natural order of life

Kari Brown that's completely not supportive.. at all..

Heather Reif Every minute of every working day, thousands of animals are killed in slaughter-houses. Pain and misery are common. In the US alone, 500,000 animals are killed for meat every hour...Thats why!


Rochelle Burk Thanks Kari! And there are TONS reasons to become vegetarian! You should research what you are eating before you put it in your mouth!! Here are just a few from Yale College of Research:

Vegetarian diets are health-giving! In fact, 95% of former meat-eaters report that a switch to a vegetarian diet increases their energy, vitality, and well-being.

Vegetarian diets support the health of the environment by avoiding the massive deforestation, wasteful feeding of grain and corn to livestock, and over-consumption of water required to support a meat-based diet.

Scientific studies have shown that vegetarian diets are associated with lower rates of killer diseases like heart disease, colon cancer, breast cancer, osteoporosis, and even lung cancer. Americans are amongst the biggest meat-consumers in the world and consequently have the highest rates in the world of those diseases.

Vegetarianism has the power to solve the world hunger crisis. If Americans were to reduce their meat consumption by only 10%, every one of the 60 million human beings that starve to death on this planet would be adequately fed. Vegetarianism is based on the ideal of humane treatment of all living creatures.

Vegetarians avoid poisonous chemicals like hormones, antibiotics, and chemical contaminants found in animal products, such as heptachlor, PCBs, toxaphene, the bacteria salmonellosis and campylobacter, and the dioxin-containing chemical 2,4,5-T, which has been linked to immune deficiencies, sterility, contamination of mother's milk, and other health problems.

Vegetarian diets supply more than adequate amounts of protein, according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrituion, the World Health Organization, and Food and Nutrition Board, and the National Research Council.

Vegetarians display greater stamina and strength than meat-eaters, as shown in numerous tests of muscular endurance.

Experts are now saying that 80% of cancer is preventable through healthy diets which contain low amounts of fats and oils and high amounts of fiber-the model vegetarian diet!


Heather Reif Every part of the human digestive tract points toward a vegetarian diet. Digestion begins in the mouth. Let’s examine the tooth and jaw structure of humans. Have you ever compared your teeth to those of a wolf or a tiger? Human teeth are flat or slightly rounded at most -- designed to grind plant material, not tear into the carcass of an animal. Carnivores, like wolves and tigers, can only move their jaws up and down whereas herbivores, like cows and horses, can move their jaws up and down as well as side-to-side. This side-to-side motion allows for the grinding and mastication of leaves and plants. Humans have the tooth and jaw structure which most closely resembles a herbivore - not a carnivore.


 Rochelle Burk NICE!

Steve Burk You are going to have to share some vegan recipes with me so I can cook something for you when you come over here for dinner! Is Josh going vegan too? Make sure to get your protein!

Rochelle Burk I will bring some recipes over! and he is going to try it. I think he may have a hard time with it, but I'm going to do its, so maybe with a support system he can too!

Bill Gilsbach Vegans have smelly farts.

Rachel Gonzalez Those are HEALTHY farts Bill!


I thought this was pretty interesting! :)

Happy New Years Eve!!