The combat towards food deserts by no means tasted so good! PETA joined Slutty Vegan restaurateur Pinky Cole as she gave away her scrumptious entrées—together with the enduring Fundamental Chik sandwich—free to an excited Atlanta crowd to assist kick off PETA’s new food justice campaign. The marketing campaign calls on authorities officers to redirect meat, egg, and dairy trade subsidies to incentives for grocers in meals deserts to inventory recent greens, fruits, and different wholesome, humane vegan meals.
“We’ve made veganism enjoyable and accessible at Slutty Vegan and are all about indulging within the little pleasures life brings,” says Cole. “We wish to present that consuming plant-based doesn’t need to be boring. With traces down the block at every of our areas, we’re honored to carry good, kinder meals to Atlanta and are grateful for PETA taking over this concern on a nationwide degree.”
Attendees additionally scooped up PETA’s free vegan meal starter kits, which embody a reusable inexperienced grocery bag, a simple go-vegan information, recent produce, and extra. That is simply the primary of many enjoyable occasions deliberate all through the nation, together with in Baltimore, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and different cities.
Yearly, the U.S. authorities spends about $38 billion in tax cash to subsidize the meat, egg, and dairy industries, the overwhelming majority of which matches to huge companies, not American farmers. Solely about $17 million is used to subsidize the fruit and vegetable industries—despite the fact that the federal authorities’s personal dietary pointers encourage individuals to eat extra produce and fewer animal-derived merchandise.
Many years of scientific research have repeatedly proved that selecting greens, grains, beans, fruits, nuts, and different vegan meals over meat, eggs, and dairy helps assist a lifetime of good health. The Academy of Diet and Dietetics states that vegans take pleasure in a decrease threat of loss of life from ischemic coronary heart illness, decrease blood levels of cholesterol, decrease blood stress, decrease charges of hypertension and kind 2 diabetes, and decrease physique mass indexes in addition to decrease general charges of growing most cancers. The proof is within the vegan pudding.
Urge your native, state, and nationwide representatives to affix you in advocating for meals justice. Ask them to redirect funds that assist the meat, egg, and dairy industries towards incentives to grocers in meals deserts to inventory greens, fruits, and different wholesome, humane vegan meals:
