Look Out Meat Industry, Wall Street and Silicon Valley Are Promoting a Vegan Diet

A recent Fortune article discusses how investors are pushing companies like Walmart, Kraft, Heinz, Nestlé, Unilever, and Tesco toward reducing animal proteins and creating and carrying more plant-based alternatives.

A group of 40 investors managing $1.25 trillion in assets has launched a campaign to encourage 16 global food companies to help reduce environmental and health risks by changing the way they source protein.

According to Jeremy Coller, chief investment officer at private equity company Coller Capital, “The world’s over reliance on factory farmed livestock to feed the growing global demand for protein is a recipe for a financial, social and environmental crisis.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reports that carbon dioxide emissions from raising farmed animals make up about 15 percent of global human-induced emissions, with beef and milk production as the leading culprit.

Additionally, health care providers have begun advising their patients on the benefits of a plant-based diet. Forbes recently highlighted how tech companies are educating doctors to help promote a vegan diet.

Most physicians get less than eight hours of nutrition education in medical school, so tech companies like Lighter are educating them on the health dangers of meat consumption. According to Forbes, common illnesses like heart disease, certain cancers, obesity, and diabetes can nearly all be prevented and treated with a whole food, plant-based diet.

As Dr. Dean Ornish, the doctor who persuaded Bill Clinton to go vegan, declared, “Don’t let anyone convince you that chronic disease is inevitable. Plant-based diets are changing the game.

Protect your health, the planet, and billions of animals by ditching animal products and switching to a sustainable, healthy, and compassionate vegan diet.

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