Six arguments for a greener diet

A meticulously researched examination of scientific studies that finds that eating more plant foods and fewer fatty animal products can lead to extra years of healthy living.

Happily, explains lead author and CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson, that same diet also leads to much less food poisoning, water pollution, air pollution, global warming, and animal suffering.

Ultimately, a diet rich in fatty animal products and poor in whole grains, fruits, and vegetables consumes the consumer: Higher rates of heart disease, stroke, certain cancers, diabetes, and obesity cause hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year.

Six Arguments for a Greener Diet exposes those, and other under-reported facts, and carefully connects the dots between a healthy diet and a healthy planet: http://cspinet.org/new/200608011.html.