Animal Writings

Here are some of the potential benefits if a concerted NIH pro-vegetable program can get people to increase their intake of vegetables, even by a modest amount:

• Medical costs go down


• Quality and quantity of life go up


• Productivity goes up


• The severity of the health care crisis is reduced


• The power and influence of drug companies is reduced


• Simply by eating more vegetables and filling up on them, on a daily basis, non-vegetarians may have smaller slabs of meat on their plates, which helps the environment, conserves resources, and reduces animal suffering and exploitation.


• By taking action to reduce their risk of deadly diseases, and having their government as an ally, people may feel somewhat more empowered about their health, and more carefully scrutinize groups that ask for money and claim to be working on a cure for disease.

I hope you give serious consideration to my proposals for a) studying why people don't eat their minimum required amount of vegetables, b) promoting vegetables in an effort to increase society's intake of them. The payoffs could be tremendous and far-reaching. And — you are the National Institutes of Health...so you should promote health!

Labels: bone health, disease, empowerment, medical costs, NIH, vegetables