One dimension of this truth concerns health. True friends cannot stand idly be, cannot be indifferent, when their friends are doing what is physically injurious to themselves. And eating meat and other animal products (eggs, milk and cheese, for example) is injurious. With a vengeance. When all the statistical dust settles, when all the charts are constructed and the graphs drawn, the facts speak with one voice: An animal-based diet is dangerous to human health. It is causally linked to the leading causes of mortality and disability. Colon cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, diabetes, hypertension, stroke - all these and many other human maladies often have their origin in a high fat, high cholesterol (which is to say, an animal-based) diet. This is not the fantasy of a small band of uninformed food fanatics. This is well established scientific fact. The more we learn about what various foods do to us, the more we understand what foods are good and bad for us. And there is no question that our chances of living a longer, fuller, healthier life are significantly increased if we eliminate meat, eggs and dairy products from our diet.