Bridge Editor
Eat Your Veggies
To the Editor:
New Year’s resolution, anyone? How about one with multiple benefits for our health, our planet, and the animals? Eating more veggies, fruits, legumes, grains, and nuts helps us stay healthier, reduce global warming, and stop animal suffering. It requires no exertion or deprivation. And it saves money too!
The abundant nutrients and vitamins in plant foods keep us in top health, while their fiber keeps us regular. Plant foods don’t do drugs, antibiotics, hormones, cholesterol, or saturated fats. Concerned about ultra-processed foods? Then you certainly don’t want your food processed through an animal’s digestive tract.
Best of all, plant-based eating is supported by your local supermarket, which offers a rich variety of plant meats, cheeses, and ice creams in their frozen food section, as well as a wide selection of nut and grain milks. Same goes for your favorite family restaurant and nearly every fast-food franchise.
There is more food for thought at forksoverknives.com, bitesizevegan.org, or in Alice Callahan’s Nov. 15, 2023 New York Times article “For Health, More Nuts, Beans and Whole Grains.”
Bon appetit! Moses Belinie, Montpelier
