Becoming Vegetarian and Cruelty Free Makeup

I decided to cut down on the amount of meat I was eating few months ago, and I would say it's one of the best decisions I've made. I was never a massive meat eater, but you'd be surprised at how easy it is to leave it off your plate.

 On today's factory farms we are being permitted to keep animals in cramped, cruel and oppressive conditions, disallowing them to raise families, build nests or do anything else natural and important to them. Others won't even see the sun or breath fresh air until they're loaded onto lorries and headed to slaughter houses.

We have taken it too far. Before I get the whole 'we are supposed to eat meat, animals eat other animals' statement laid on me, picture this: a world without meat. It's like a world without cars, pretty hard to imagine, right? In actual fact, we would be just fine, in fact, we would have more food to go round. Why are we growing crops to feed animals raised for meat rather than growing food for people?When you consider that it takes 4.5 pounds of grain just for 1 pound of chicken meat, this is inefficiency at its worst.

Obviously there are also loads of health benefits too. Cutting down on red meats in particular would reduce your likelihood for heart disease, the number-one killer of women. Fatty red meats and many processed meats are high in saturated fat, which raises LDL (bad) cholesterol and increases risk of coronary heart disease. Scarily, it has been proven that meat-cancer connection exists. There was a study in the British Journal of Cancer, those who ate the most red and processed meat were found to have the highest risk of breast cancer.

Vegetarian food doesn't have to be boring. Here is a great website I use to find new,exciting vegetarian meals. I particularly love using Jamie's pasta and pancake recipes. 

Did you know that loads of makeup is still being tested on animals? In fact, in China it is required. Since 2013, animal-tested cosmetics have been banned in the EU, but a loophole means some ingredients can still be tested.

Here is a list of brands that test on animals, and ones that don't. The results I found actually surprised me.

Makeup tested on animals           

                    Makeup tested on animals

L'Oreal

Mac

Bobbi Brown

Benefit

Avon

Rimmel

Revlon -Revlon did 3rd party testing on animals (selling in China) but have since pulled out which make them cruelty free!

Maybelline

Clinique

Makeup not tested on animals

Burt’s Bee’s

Boots Natural Collection

Boots No.7

The Body Shop

Lush

Bourjois

Revlon

Bare Minerals

Clarins

So, I am not expecting everyone who reads this to agree with me, and that is absolutely fine. I just want to make people aware of what is going on in the world, and you're a meat eater you need to know the truth about how the animal gets to your plate. If you would like some more information on vegetarian recipes and making the switch please get in contact with me or leave a comment below.