Virtually all the major scientific and medical institutions in the world agree that the risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke, obesity, osteoarthritis and osteoporosis, cancer, and diabetes, among other diseases is linked to a meat-based diet consisting of highly processed foods laden with fats and artificial ingredients. These institutions further agree that the risk is greatly reduced by adopting a healthy low-fat, high-fiber diet.
At Down to Earth, we believe this result is best achieved by adopting a healthy vegetarian diet consisting of organic produce and natural foods.
Therefore, all the products in Down to Earth stores are 100% vegetarian. Shopping at Down to Earth is truly cruelty-free because its products contain no ingredients from slaughtered animals and none are tested on animals.
Down to Earth sells no meat, poultry, fish, eggs, or their by-products such as animal rennet contained in cheese or the gelatin capsules of dietary supplements, etc.
The company sells certain animal products such as milk and honey, which can be obtained without slaughtering the animal. However, it deplores the practices of many individual farmers and huge factory farms that exploit and mistreat the animals, particularly the cows, who are compared to a mother as they freely provide their milk to mankind.
Down to Earth’s vegetarian beliefs are based upon the following ethical, environmental and health reasons:
Virtually all the major scientific and medical institutions in the world agree that the risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke, obesity, osteoarthritis and osteoporosis, cancer, and diabetes, among other diseases is linked to a meat-based diet consisting of highly processed foods laden with fats and artificial ingredients. These institutions further agree that the risk is greatly reduced by adopting a healthy low-fat, high-fiber diet.
At Down to Earth, we believe this result is best achieved by adopting a healthy vegetarian diet consisting of organic produce and natural foods.
Therefore, all the products in Down to Earth stores are 100% vegetarian. Shopping at Down to Earth is truly cruelty-free because its products contain no ingredients from slaughtered animals and none are tested on animals.
Down to Earth sells no meat, poultry, fish, eggs, or their by-products such as animal rennet contained in cheese or the gelatin capsules of dietary supplements, etc.
The company sells certain animal products such as milk and honey, which can be obtained without slaughtering the animal. However, it deplores the practices of many individual farmers and huge factory farms that exploit and mistreat the animals, particularly the cows, who are compared to a mother as they freely provide their milk to mankind.
Down to Earth’s vegetarian beliefs are based upon the following ethical, environmental and health reasons:
- Eating animals is unnecessary because nature has provided ample vegetables, fruits, grains, legumes and dairy products for human sustenance.
- Eating animals causes extreme pain and suffering to billions of innocent creatures.
- A meat-based diet is an extremely wasteful use of the earth's limited resources, as it requires many times more resources to create a pound of animal flesh than a pound of vegetarian foods.
- The meat industry desecrates the environment through topsoil loss, deforestation, water pollution and contributes to global warming.
- Meat, fish, and eggs have high cholesterol. Their wide-scale consumption has contributed to the dramatic increase in the number of deaths from heart disease, strokes and cancer; and meat based diets contribute to a host of other health related problems.