Is Being Unhealthy Costing You a Million Dollars?
Doctors all over the world are beginning to see that the healthiest diet is a diet void of any animal products — that means no meat, dairy, fish and eggs. These doctors and scientist include Dr. John McDougall, Dr. Neal D. Barnard, Thomas Campbell PhD, Dr. Caldwell D. Essenlstyn and many others. So besides being unhealthy — how much is meat and dairy actually costing to your retirement nest-egg? Because if Americans have given up on health, we sure haven’t given up on the retirement dream. Well, if you and your spouse become vegans, not only will you be helping to save the planet from world wide food shortages within thirty years but, you’ll also save an average of $2,600 a year on food expenses (or about $5,000 a year if you have two vegan kids at home). If you reinvest just the $2,600 savings in the stock market every year and earn an average return of 8%, after 44 years you and your spouse will retire with an extra $1,051,000. And if you wait 45 years you and your spouse will retire with an extra $1,141,000! Off simply changing your diet to a more healthy vegan diet.
So why is going vegan so much cheaper? It’s simple, the average meat eating diet requires about 13 times more water and 18 times more land to produce this diet than the average all plant based diet. Someone has to pay for all that extra water and land and that someone is you, the end consumer. And if you think you can’t get enough nutrition from a vegan based diet than look to Israel, where 5% of the country is vegan and soldiers have the option to go vegan and receive leather-free boots and a small allowance to buy alternative foods in the mess halls. Or look to celebrities like Bill Gates, Natalie Portman, Bill Clinton, Carrie Underwood, Al Gore, and even the once heavyweight boxing champion of the world Mike Tyson who went fully vegan in 2010. These people are doing it and they don’t even need the extra million dollars. And if you’re an athlete who believes meat and dairy give you a competitive edge, look to Carl Lewis, the world-famous United States track runner and Olympic Gold medalist who said he ran the best race of his life in 1991 after he turned vegan to prepare for the race. Who said you need to spend more to get more?
G20 countries will likely begin to tax meat and dairy within 10 years as the animal agriculture industry is the single largest polluter in the world and studies show that eating meat and dairy are harmful for humans to eat no different than tobacco and alcohol. At least tobacco and alcohol aren’t killing mother nature, the only mother we all share. With our world population set to boom to close to 9.3 billion people by 2050 — the planet simply can’t sustain 10 billion humans wishing we were carnivores.
No one denies that meat and dairy aren’t delicious but this delicious treat is costing you a million dollars and is killing our one-and-only planet with every bite. Do you really want your grandkids to live in a world with no rainforest and no fish in our ocean? Staying an omnivore will likely take even more from your retirement as countries begin to tax meat and dairy like they tax alcohol and tobacco. In fact, even without the taxes, Canadian beef prices went up 18% this past year and other meats went up an average of 10%. So who knows, maybe becoming a vegan couple could end up adding more than just a million to your retirement — time will tell.
So to sum it up, “Become a healthy Vegan. Retire with an extra million dollars. (As who couldn’t use an extra million?) And save our future grand kids of inheriting a planet on life support.”
This was written by Michael Brunet, the author of Greedlicious whose goal is get 50% of North America to go vegan for at least 6 days a week by 2019. The clock is ticking. To help spread the word and get in touch with Michael Brunet visit www.greedlicious.com.
Sources
15 Vegan Celebrities Who’ve Given Up Animal Products For A Healthier Lifestyle. Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/01/vegan-celebrities_n_4351908.html
This overall projection (9.3 billion in 2050) matches the “medium variant” forecast in the United Nations Population Division’s World Population Prospects, 2010 revision. A recent update from the United Nations has a somewhat higher estimate, 9.55 billion.
