“Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our…” — Neal Barnard

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.

If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people', you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.