go plant based International Society for Cow Protection ISCOWP.ORG Radhika and Devaki on front cover. Priya, in the photo above, is the king of the ISCOWP herd. International Society for Cow Protection ISCOWP Profile Dear Friends, The International Society for Cow Protection, Inc. (ISCOWP) was incorporated in the USA, We believe that rescuing cows from being sold March 1990, as a 501 (c) (3) non-profit, tax for meat and then caring for them their entire exempt organization. William and Irene Dove lives (a cow can live for 25 years or more) until (Balabhadra das and Chayadevi dasi) are its their natural death is a humane, compassionate managing directors. They are disciples of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami act and can only help the planet towards a more Prabhupada, the Founder Acharya of the Inter- peaceful existence. national Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). Through their spiritual master's Besides having our local sanctuary we teachings, they have imbibed the practices and encourage and educate others how they too can benefits, both spiritual and material, of lifetime care for cows. William E. Dove, ISCOWP cow protection. Cow protection means enabling president, has traveled widely to counsel future cows to live out their natural lives with love and and current cow protection programs. We also affection. The tenets of cow protection are offer assistance through conference calls, universal and nonsectarian, available to all seminars and literature. regardless of race, creed, or nationality. Mailing Address ISCOWP Compared to the numbers of cows bred 7016 SE 92 Terrace worldwide each day, what we are doing, both Gainesville FL, USA, 32641 locally and beyond, is less than a mere drop in Phone the bucket. Therefore we encourage people to 352.792.6777 change their diet to a plant based one. Not only Donations and Financial Reports do we encourage not eating meat but if milk USA tax deductible number: 23-2604082. from lifetime protected cows is not available to A copy of each year’s ISCOWP IRS Form you, decrease or stop altogether your use of 990-EZ is available at guidestar.org To donate online: factory farm milk and its by products. iscowp.org/donations/ To donate by mail: This alone can make a great difference in the Make out check to ISCOWP and send to amount of cows that are bred and tortured each ISCOWP mailing address day to put milk and its byproducts on the E-newsletter Monthly dinner table. Subscribe on our website iscowp.org Store This booklet gives much information on how iscowp.org/store/ Adopt A Cow your diet change will affect your health, your iscowp.org/adopt-a-cow/ environment and the lives of so many animals. Internet Many other organizations like Down to Earth, [email protected] Vegetarian Times etc. have been quoted. iscowp.org youtube.com/user/ISCOWP108 Your Editor, Irene M. Dove facebook.com/ internationalsocietyforcowprotectioniscowp Change Your Diet, Go Plant Based 3 1. Plant Based Diet Improves Health Thanks to an abundance of scientific because vegetarians consume less animal research that demonstrates the health and fat and cholesterol (vegans consume no environmental benefits of a plant-based animal fat or cholesterol) and instead diet, even the federal government recom- consume more fiber and more antioxidant- mends that we consume most of our rich produce—another great reason to calories from grain products, vegetables listen to Mom and eat your veggies! and fruits. You'll Keep Your Weight Down. The And no wonder: An estimated 70 percent standard American diet—high in saturated of all diseases, including one-third of all fats and processed foods and low in plant- cancers, are related to diet. A vegetarian based foods and complex carbohydrates— diet reduces the risk for chronic is making us fat and killing us slowly. degenerative diseases such as obesity, According to the Centers for Disease coronary artery disease, high blood Control and Prevention (CDC) and a pressure, diabetes and certain types of division of the CDC, the National Center cancer including colon, breast, prostate, for Health Statistics, 64 percent of adults stomach, lung and esophageal cancer. and 15 percent of children aged 6 to 19 are overweight and are at risk of weight- Why go vegetarian? Chew on these related ailments including heart disease, reasons: stroke and diabetes. You'll Ward Off Disease. Vegetarian A study conducted from 1986 to 1992 by diets are more healthful than the average Dean Ornish, MD, president and director of American diet, particularly in preventing, the Preventive Medicine Research Institute treating or reversing heart disease and in Sausalito, California, found that over- reducing the risk of cancer. A low-fat weight people who followed a low-fat, vegetarian diet is the single most effective vegetarian diet lost an average of 24 pounds way to stop the progression of coronary in the first year and kept off that weight 5 artery disease or prevent it entirely. years later. They lost the weight without Cardiovascular disease kills 1 million counting calories or carbs and without Americans annually and is the leading measuring portions or feeling hungry. cause of death in the United States. You'll Live Longer. If you switch from But the mortality rate for cardiovascular the standard American diet to a vegetarian disease is lower in vegetarians than in non- diet, you can add about 13 healthy years to vegetarians, says Joel Fuhrman, MD, your life, says Michael F. Roizen, MD, author of Eat to Live: The Revolutionary author of The RealAge Diet: Make Yourself Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss. Younger with What You Eat. "People who A vegetarian diet is inherently healthful consume saturated, four-legged fat have a 4 Change Your Diet, Go Plant Based Most of the ISCOWP herd resting. shorter life span and more disability at the intended—through foods. Foods also end of their lives. Animal products clog supply other nutrients such as your arteries, zap your energy and slow phosphorus, magnesium and vitamin D down your immune system. Meat eaters that are necessary for the body to absorb also experience accelerated cognitive and and use calcium. sexual dysfunction at a younger age." People who are mildly lactose-intolerant Want more proof of longevity? Residents can often enjoy small amounts of dairy of Okinawa, Japan, have the longest life products such as yogurt, cheese and expectancy of any Japanese and likely the lactose-free milk. But if you avoid dairy longest life expectancy of anyone in the altogether, you can still get a healthful world, according to a 30-year study of dose of calcium from dry beans, tofu, more than 600 Okinawan centenarians. soymilk and dark green vegetables such as Their secret: a low-calorie diet of unrefined broccoli, kale, collards and turnip greens. complex carbohydrates, fiber-rich fruits and vegetables, and soy. You'll Reduce Your Risk of Food- Borne Illnesses. The CDC reports that You'll Build Strong Bones. food-borne illnesses of all kinds account When there isn't enough calcium in the for 76 million illnesses a year, resulting in bloodstream, our bodies will leach it from 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths existing bone. The metabolic result is that in the United States. According to the US our skeletons will become porous and lose Food and Drug Administration (FDA), strength over time. Most health care foods rich in protein such as meat, practitioners recommend that we increase poultry, fish and seafood are frequently our intake of calcium the way nature involved in food-borne illness outbreaks. 1. Plant Based Diet Improves Health 5 You'll Ease The Symptoms of You'll Be More 'Regular.' Menopause. Many foods contain nutri- Eating a lot of vegetables necessarily ents beneficial to perimenopausal and means consuming more fiber, which menopausal women. Certain foods are rich pushes waste out of the body. Meat in phytoestrogens, the plant-based chemi- contains no fiber. People who eat lower on cal compounds that mimic the behavior of the food chain tend to have fewer estrogen. Since phytoestrogens can increase instances of constipation, hemorrhoids and decrease estrogen and progesterone and diverticulitis. levels, maintaining a balance of them in your diet helps ensure a more comfortable You'll Avoid Toxic Chemicals. passage through menopause. Soy is by far The EPA estimates that nearly 95 percent of the most abundant natural source of phy- the pesticide residue in the typical toestrogens, but these compounds also can American diet comes from meat, fish and be found in hundreds of other foods such dairy products. Fish, in particular, contain as apples, beets, cherries, dates, garlic, ol- carcinogens (PCBs, DDT) and heavy metals ives, plums, raspberries, squash and yams. (mercury, arsenic, lead, cadmium) that can't Because menopause is also associated with be removed through cooking or freezing. weight gain and a slowed metabolism, a low-fat, high-fiber vegetarian diet can help Meat and dairy products can also be laced ward off extra pounds. with steroids and hormones, so be sure to read the labels on the dairy products you You'll Have More Energy. Good purchase. nutrition generates more usable energy to keep pace with the kids, tackle that home It's a breeze. It's almost effortless these improvement project or have better sex days to find great-tasting and good-for- more often, Michael F. Roizen, MD, says in you vegetarian foods, whether you're The RealAge Diet. Too much fat in your strolling the aisles of your local supermar- bloodstream means that arteries won't ket or walking down the street at open properly and that your muscles won't lunchtime.