VEGAN SOCIETY OF GHANA
P.O. BOX 200 ARTS CENTRE, ACCRA,
GHANA
TEL: + 233 24 630784
URL: www.ivu.org/veghana
E-mail: veghana@ivu.org
Isaac Obiora Dikeocha (President) Henry Anderson (Secretary) John Akin
(Treasurer)
The VEGAN SOCIETY OF GHANA is a non-profit and humanitarian organization
dedicated to fostering and encouraging vegan lifestyle in Ghana and West
African Sub Region through social and educational activities. Our society
was formed by concerned and dedicated vegans who have the goal of restoring
the dignity of every living creature by eliminating the cruel treatments
of animals and at the same time evolve a healthy and peaceful environment
where all forms of life would live happily together.
A vegan lives on a plant-based diet, free of all animal flesh - meat,
fish or fowl of any kind. Vegans exclude all animal products from their
diets.
A vegan (pronounced VEE-gun) is someone who avoids using or consuming animal products. While vegetarians avoid flesh foods, vegans also avoid dairy and eggs, as well as fur, leather, wool, down, and cosmetics or chemical products tested on animals. Veganism, the natural extension of vegetarianism, is an integral component of a cruelty-free lifestyle.
Living vegan provides numerous benefits to animals' lives, to the environment, and to our own health-through a healthy diet and lifestyle. Despite the common belief that drinking milk or eating eggs does not kill animals, commercially-raised dairy cows and egg-laying chickens, whether factory-farmed or 'free range,' are slaughtered when their production rates decline. Animal agriculture takes a devastating toll on the earth. It is an inefficient way of producing food, since feed for farm animals requires land, water, fertilizer, and other resources that could otherwise have been used directly for producing human food. The consumption of animal fats and proteins has been linked to heart disease, colon and lung cancer, osteoporosis, diabetes, kidney disease, hypertension, obesity, and a number of other debilitating conditions. Cows' milk contains ideal amounts of fat and protein for young calves, but far too much for humans
Our Association recognizes that our members are vegans or interested
in veganism for a variety of reasons - including personal health, compassion
to animals, concern for the environment, respect for peace and non-violence,
concern about world hunger and religious beliefs - and that not all members
share all of them. Join us in achieving these and add your efforts to
ours in trying to achieve our set goals and objectives. Please contact
the secretary with the above E-mail or postal addresses for membership
and events information. Events information will soon be published on the
web.
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