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Neal D. Barnard, M.D., F.A.C.C., is an American author, clinical researcher, and founding president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM).

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You will find that your taste buds have a memory of about 3 weeks.

Buds, Memories, Memory, Taste, Taste Buds, Week

Since I first went to India twenty some years ago, there's been a palpable change. There's now pizza everywhere, meat is much more popular than it's ever been. Vegetarianism is "that quaint thing our parents did. "

Parent, Popular, Twenty, Vegetarianism, Years

The dangers of eating animal products occur after the age of reproduction. If people developed cardiovascular disease that was fatal by the age of twelve or thirteen, eating animals would have died out long ago. You get it after you've already reproduced.

Already, Animal, Eating, Long Ago, People, Reproduction

I'm thinking of people in rural Japan and China, where McDonald's hasn't yet arrived. These are the thinnest, healthiest, longest-lived people with the least risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

China, Diabetes, Disease, Japan, Mcdonalds, Thinking

People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric intake has not fallen, if they are really shoveling in the steak, they don't lose weight.

Caloric, Diet, People, Reason, Weight

I think herd mentality is a good thing overall. Because if every sheep had to figure out the velocity of the wolf and their personal risk, that would take forever.

Forever, Herd, Risk, Sheep, Thing, Thinking

I was aware of what animals go through because I had driven animals to slaughter and I'd killed animals. And I was aware that there were certain ethical issues, but they weren't preying on my mind very heavily.

Animal, Animals, Ethical, Ethical Issues, Issues, Mind

To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

Abuse, Animal, Children, Giving, Products

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

Animal, Automobile, Century, Contributed, Native American, War

Dogs have a sense of smell much greater than ours and they're much faster than we are. We have fairly dull senses, fairly slow locomotion. In our Olympic trials, we celebrate speeds that would be an embarrassment to a bird or a dog or another animal.

Animal, Dog, Embarrassment, Slow, Smell

If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

Animal, Good, Idea, Real, Rights

In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.

Dairy, Eggs, Health, Meat, School

It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys. " And humans have herd mentality.

Guy, Herd, Herds, Humans, Running

A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do.

Care, Needs, Olive Oil, Takes, Vegan

I am always struck by how difficult it is for people to see how much cruelty they are bringing not only upon animals but upon themselves and their loved ones and other people, how much we are screwing up the planet, how much we are hurting our own health, how hard it is to change all that, how eager people are to make a buck at everybody else's expense - all those things are discouraging.

Animal, Difficult, Eager, Hurt, Loved, People

The Stone Age gave us arrow heads and eventually knives, and that allowed us to kill animals in ways you couldn't before, and once you had them you were able to remove the skin and bones.

Allowed, Animal, Arrows, Eventually, Kill, Knives

A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.

Animal, Fat, Generally, Heart, Minimize, Oil

While it's certainly true that many people think that dairy doesn't have a cost to the animal, it's because they never went to a dairy farm.

Animal, Cost, Dairy, Farm, People, Thinking

The thinnest people on the planet are those who eat the most carbohydrates.

Carbohydrates, Eat, People, Planet, Planets

I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.

Attractive, Children, Chunks, Following, Meat, Vegan

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