World Go Vegan Week is Next Week, Celebrate with a Vegan Pizza!
October 20th, 2011 | 
Author: World Go Vegan Week is Oct. 24 – 31, and IDA volunteers have been hard at work getting pizza restaurants to participate in our Vegan Pizza Takes Over the World campaign! We’ve had 73 volunteers reach out to 142 pizza restaurants in the U.S. and Canada, asking them to participate in our week of celebration of the vegan lifestyle.
Click here to see a list of participating restaurants offering a vegan pizza featuring Daiya cheese (pronounced DAY-aa), a vegan cheese that melts, stretches, and tastes like traditional dairy-based cheese. If a restaurant is participating in your area, grab your friends and family and show support with a vegan pizza party!
The vegan lifestyle is picking up steam; celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres, Alicia Silverstone, Lea Michele, Carrie Underwood, Emily Deschanel, Tobey Maguire, and Bill Clinton, among many others, have all made this compassionate and healthy lifestyle choice. While the number of vegetarians is growing every year, the number of non-vegetarians who often order vegan meals at restaurants is also increasing dramatically. The National Restaurant Association named vegan entrées a “hot trend” for 2011. Many people are looking for ways to eat healthier, while at the same time, helping to reduce animal suffering and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Ordering a vegan pizza is a great way to accomplish all three!
The dairy industry is pure hell for cows. To make just a pound of cheese, which is loaded with saturated fat, 12 pounds of milk are needed for this extremely wasteful and energy-intensive process. Like all mammals, female cows only lactate after giving birth. To maximize milk production, cows are constantly kept pregnant during their entire short and miserable lives until sent to slaughter. Each year, she will be artificially inseminated, and within hours of giving birth, the calf will be ripped from her side. Males will be fattened for veal or beef, while the females will endure the same dismal fate as their mothers. The stress on the mother’s body will diminish her milk output after about 3 or 4 years. She is then what the industry calls “dried up” or “spent,” and even though her natural life span is 20 years, it is more lucrative to send her to slaughter and replace her. Her body will be sold as ground beef.
But there is a way to reduce all of this suffering—Celebrate World Go Vegan Week and GO VEGAN! Give it a try for at least one week. The animals, the environment, and your health can only benefit from your compassionate choice. Click here for more information on the vegan lifestyle.
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I am so honored to step into a world where my body finally feels truly nourished. I am so sorry that it took so long for “the light bulb to go on” because as a lifelong animal lover, I see now that my choices before were hurtful. Thank GOD for movies like Food Matters, Forks Over Knives, Fat Sick and Nearly Dead, Vegucated, To Your Health, Kickstart Your Health! Now people can see the truth about what is happening to the animals, our bodies and the planet…and make it right.
Je suis devenue vegetarienne il y a longtemps dans les annees 80 en regardant des reportages a la tele qui commencait a cette epoque en france a denoncer la souffrance insoutenable de ces pauvres animaux avant ca je n en avait pas concience et c est ca qu il faudrait une prise de concience mais helas beaucoup de personne ne sont pas atteint par tout ceci ce qui comte c est la bouf genre foie gras a noel et j en passe .Je ne porte pas leur peau ni cuir ni fourrure . Esperons qu un jour toutes ces souffrances n existeront plus mais il faudra du temps .
Since I became a vegan in 1999, I have never been sick. Do I need to say more? and I never cheated either
I became a vegetarian almost 36 years ago because I did not like eating animals. I knew nothing about conditions under which they lived and the environmental impact. When I did learn about what happens to all these animals I realized that being vegetarian was not enough. It has been many years now since I took the extra step and it something I can only feel god about. I don’t have abused animals in my body and I help the planet a little bit. People think we are losing out by eating al those meat and dairy dishes but we are the ones who are winning along with the animals.
Same here, Kate. It’s hard sometimes, but it’s the right thing to do. I hope it will be easier for generations in the future, and I believe that it will be. More and more great products are coming out that can replace the eggs and dairy in the recipes that have become our cultural heritage; also, we can start to change that cultural heritage by creating new cuisine that is plant based and doesn’t have to rely on substitutions.