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Why I vote for Plant-Based Diet

EP McKnight, MEd
5 min readSep 3, 2019

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Life is comprised of choices about what you do and how you do it. When you do it is important and willing to start where you are or do over is key. Plant based is all the craze right now but since I was a kid w e ate from the garden, everything from veggies to fruits. Back in the day, this was just a way of life.

From a family of nine, seven sibling, my parents had to make ends meet so that was done via our garden. Very little was purchased from stores. In addition to the garden, we raised our own chickens, obtained fresh eggs and the rest was history. Don’t recall any major sickness in our home. That speaks for itself.

Today, plant based diet is like a new phenomena. Be that as it may, with all the pesticides, hormones and chemicals in our food and meats, it is time for a change and why not plant based products.

The best part of all this is choices. Everyone can choose what they want to consume and that’s okay. There is no one shoe fits all. We are in big trouble with manufacturers mass producing at all cost and namely the consumers pay twice, in dollars and health.

According to 10,000 studies and reviewed via medical journals depicts that a…

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EP McKnight, MEd
EP McKnight, MEd

Written by EP McKnight, MEd

Actress, Stage playwright, Author, Motivational Speaker, Teacher Fitness Coach. www.epmcknight.wixsite.epfitspiration Follow me: Tiktok, imdb.me/epmcknight

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