Reasons Why You Should Eat More Veggies

-Vegetables from start to finish use less energy. egetables are lighter in weight, don't require feeding (like live animals do), and can be stacked much more efficiently for transport than livestock.

-Buying local saves even more transport energy. Transporting vegetables from a farm in your local area opposed to a farm halfway across the country will result in less energy consumed, and a fresher product from less transit time.

-Growing your own vegetables in your backyard, deck, porch or window, like buying local, will enormously slash the amount of energy consumed to get the food to your plate. If it's in your backyard, your cutting out that transportation for you to go to the store, for the vegetable to get to you, and potentially pesticide use (and ingestion).

-Livestock are responsible for 28% of global methane emissions, which greatly speeds up global warming. Vegetables don't create this massive amount of methane emissions that destroy the atmosphere. Opting for vegetables instead of meat can reduce the overall production of livestock.

-Vegetables do not require excessive preperation before being sold. With livestock, there's the added process of slaughter, preparing the meat, cutting the meat at grocery store/butcher shops, using packaging to wrap the meat, and cooking the meat (which uses energy). Vegetables can be consumed raw in most cases with no cooking. In fact, the benefits of raw vegetables also have a positive impact on the body.