Through my involvement in the animal world - and in learning the countless ways in which animals are exploited - I came to understand how our consumption of animals affects us in a myriad of ways.  The resources that are used to feed ‘food’ animals could feed starving children around the world. The damage that animal agriculture does to our environment, our air, water, and land is unfathomable. The deforestation that occurs to raise food animals is at an astronomic scale. Animal agriculture destroys and kills 60-70 billion land animals per year and many other wildlife species. Our pursuit for certain species of fishes, whales, turtles, dolphins, among countless other "untargeted" species in the ocean amounts to trillions of dead sea animals per year - and up to 90%, by-kill.

I learned about the connection between our diet and our health - and how eating plants is the optimal choice for our health.  I've come to know physicians who are now treating patients not just conventionally, but with a plant-based diet. My daughter wrote a book called Rethink Food, where she interviewed physicians from around the globe about the power of plants for healing.  I decided to become certified in plant-based nutrition because I see how the same diet that can heal our relationship to animals and the planet can also heal our bodies. This is why, when we choose to plant seeds of kindness, we are affecting the whole!