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Everyone should have access to nutritious food, but it’s tough for folks living in food deserts to eat healthfully.
Michigan spends millions of tax dollars each year subsidizing the cruel meat, egg, and dairy industries. Instead, that money could go toward making nutritious plant-based foods available to the state’s residents, which would improve human health and help animals.
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 proved repeatedly that choosing vegetables, grains, beans, fruits, nuts, and other plant 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 protect against numerous diseases and conditions—including heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and strokes, which are some of the leading causes of death in the U.S—or slows the progression of their symptoms.
Eating vegan also helps reduce the number of animals who suffer terribly in the meat, egg, and dairy industries. In addition to being able to feel pain and emotions, animals killed for food are like us in many other ways. Mother chickens begin to teach calls to their chicks before they even hatch. Pigs can learn to play video games. Cows enjoy problem-solving and get excited when they find a solution.
Join PETA in advocating for food justice. If you’re a resident of Michigan, please urge your state legislators to redirect funds that prop up the cruel, environmentally destructive meat, egg, and dairy industries to provide grocers in food deserts with incentives to stock vegetables, fruits, and other healthy vegan foods.