The health component of the “holy trinity” of veganism (animals, the environment, and health) just got a double boost from two recent studies.

By Rick Thompson

Nearly 50 years ago, a now-infamous study by Stanley Milgram, Ph.D., revealed that most people would administer what they believed were painful shocks to another person if an authority figure ordered them to do so.

While life expectancy has increased in our society, many people spend the last decades of their lives infirm, loaded to the gills with pharmaceuticals, and/or stuck in front of the television.

With the current economic hardships we face today, it can seem very hard to eat healthy home cooked meals.

The following post was originally published by Alisa Mullins on PETAPrime.org

A recent study indicating that healthy people who took statin drugs cut their risk of heart attacks by 50 percent has some folks speed-dialing their general practitioners and asking if they should start taking a cholesterol-lowering drug.