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Everyone should have access to nutritious foods, but it’s tough for those living in food deserts to eat healthfully.
The Indiana government spends millions of tax dollars each year subsidizing the unhealthy meat, egg, and dairy industries. In 2020, for example, the state gave $38 million to just one dairy processing plant for property tax abatement, when that money could have gone toward making healthy foods available in food deserts. In Indianapolis alone, nearly 20% of people live in food deserts. Leading health experts agree that eating vegan is the single best thing that we can do to promote our own well-being and that of our families. Decades of scientific studies have repeatedly proved that choosing vegetables, grains, beans, fruits, nuts, and other plant-based foods over meat, fish, poultry, eggs, and dairy helps support a lifetime of good health. Eating vegan decreases blood pressure, eliminates cholesterol intake, and helps provide protection against numerous diseases and conditions or slows the progression of their symptoms, including some of our country’s leading causes of death: heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and strokes. Eating vegan also helps reduce the number of animals who suffer terribly on farms and at slaughterhouses.
Join PETA in advocating for food justice. If you live in Indiana, please urge your legislators to act to redirect funds that support the meat, egg, and dairy industries to provide grocers in food deserts with incentives to stock vegetables, fruits, and other healthy, humane vegan foods.