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Adopting a balanced vegan diet, free of all animal products, is one of the most powerful steps you can take to reduce animal suffering, improve your health, and heal the planet.
Delicious, healthy, compassionate, and earth friendly cuisine can be the start of a more meaningful and honest lifestyle. Sadly, society remains largely uninformed regarding the realities of an animal-based diet. riva is available to guide and support you through the challenges of learning and journey towards compassionate living. You can make a Difference starting Today!
Extending Compassion
"for the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being."
- Plutarch
Farmed animals, like our cat and dog companions, are highly feeling, social beings deserving of our respect. Yet about 10 billion land mammals and birds are annually bred, raised and killed for food in the United States under shockingly cruel conditions. Learn more
Improving Health
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
- Albert Einstein
Extensive research shows that eliminating animal foods and choosing a wide variety of plant-based foods significantly reduces the risk of heart disease, colon and lung cancer, osteoporosis, diabetes, kidney disease, hypertension, obesity, and other illnesses. Learn more
Healing the Earth
"The way that we breed animals for food is a threat to the planet. It pollutes our environment while consuming huge amounts of water, grain, petroleum, pesticides and drugs. The results are disastrous."
- David Brubaker, Ph.D.,Johns Hopkins University
Planet Earth’s rivers, forests, oceans, wildlife, air, ecosystems, and fertile soil are in peril because of modern agricultural policies and practices. Learn more
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