By following a good healthy balanced veggie diet you are making strides in maintaining tip-top health! Veggies have typically lower rates of heart disease, diabetes, certain cancers (colon cancer in particular) and high blood pressure.

Cutting out meat can really make a difference in avoiding food poisoning. You are more likely to pick up bugs like E. Coli from meat, chicken and seafood than any other foods.

‘I’m too sexy for …’ eating meat! Yep, veggies are hot! By watching what they eat and consuming a varied plant diet they naturally tend to get more of the vitamins and minerals that make for a good lurrrve life! So that makes veggies passionate, not only about the planet, food, animals and health, but about each other!

Going veggie is an intelligent choice…and that’s official. Veggies have higher IQs than non-veggies. A recent report showed that young people who made the decision to go veggie went on to have higher intelligence.

One of the best reasons to be a veggie is that every year in the UK more than 900 million mammals and birds – and countless fish – are killed for food. Millions more die from stress, suffocation, injuries or disease in the food industry.

Save our forests. Tropical forests are destroyed daily to create more land to raise livestock and grow grain for animal feed. According to the UN livestock production is responsible for 70% of Amazon deforestation.

Cheap and cheerful, a vegetarian diet can save you money. By not buying expensive bits of animals, birds and fish, you can spend your money on much cheaper vegetables, grains and fruits.