Palo Alto Humane Society

Humane Eating

PAHS’s Guide to Dining with a Big Appetite and a Clear Conscience

Leading a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle is one of the simplest and most powerful ways to help animals. By keeping animals off your plate you are keeping animals out of the slaughterhouse and turning your dollar away from the atrocious cruelty and confinement of factory farming. As Dr. T. Colin Campbell (author of The China Study) and many others have shown, eating far less animal products also promotes your own health and lessens the risks for a variety of diseases. Additionally, evidence continues to show support for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s findings that animal agribusiness is a leading cause of greenhouse gas emissions directly impacting changes to our global climate systems.

The good news is that making animal-friendly food choices is easier today than ever before. PAHS has compiled several references to help you make optimal choices when it comes to food and food products.

The good news is that making animal-friendly food choices is easier today than ever before. Convenient and scrumptious vegetarian foods have sprouted up among our nation’s restaurant menus and grocery aisles. With over 100 strictly vegetarian restaurants (about a third of them vegan), a myriad natural food stores, and vegetarian networks and gatherings, the Bay Area is perhaps the most veg-friendly region in the country.