A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But youll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats. – Neal Barnard
Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods – these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat. – Neal Barnard
In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either. – Neal Barnard
I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child. – Neal Barnard
Unless youre living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, theres no point in being gloomy. Weve spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we dont really need. Weve stopped using our imaginations. – Jarvis Cocker