3 benchmarks for real health-care reform:

Reducing Cost:
Obama, you stated with regards to healthcare "we can save 1 trillion dollars by changing our diets." tinyurl.com/VeganObama
In addition to this we can save trillions more by ending the subsidies that fund unsustainable animal agriculture.

Informed Decisions:
May President Obama's aids, staffers and advisers notify the public and political people with power how we can prevent climate change and help people achieve optimal health by adopting a vegan diet.

Prestigious Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production stated factory farms pose unacceptable risks to public health, the environment & animal welfare.

“It is the position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada that appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases…Well-planned vegan [pure vegetarian] and other types of vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence.”

Quality Care 4 All:
Fair treatment to humans as well as animals. Let's end discrimination by not engaging in discrimination and calling some animals our beloved pets and others we call food. Gandhi -The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the ways its animals are treated.

I know you are aware of the tremendous inefficiencies in the animal agriculture industry, such as the water usage, grain, soy, fuel and electric consumption. I know you are aware that a pure vegetarian diet is good for human health as well as for the health of our planet.
The Noble Peace Prize wining UN report “Livestock’s Long Shadow” paints a pretty clear picture that not pretty.

A recent study from Europe relieved that we can reverse 80% of climate change just by changing our diet. Ghent, Belgium set a world president going vegetarian for at least one day out of the week. We need to be courageous, bold and revolutionary and start the health care kick off event by kicking the harmful meat eating habit.

Why should I as a taxpayer fund the billions of dollars in subsidies that go to raising animals, lets start by at the very least end meat subsidies and divert those funds to public camping awareness to the plant based diet and organic farming practices.

James Hansen the top NASA climatologist warned we have 4 years we pass the point of no return. So it doesn’t make sense why we keep talking about green technology when the solution is right in front of us and we are not addressing it - its animal agriculture that is the biggest terrorist treat and its domestic. I’m asking you to ban meat – "a total recall," not just temperary ones because of tainted meat.

Please, be a heroic vegan President. The ever-growing veggie moment is standing by; ready, willing, and able to assist you in anyway possible

Obama needs to talk to the Democratic governors and legislators at the local level. In Washington State, they have shown themselves all to ready to abandon their principles for expediency. They have balanced the budget on the backs of the disabled and vulnerable, cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from health care for children, long term care, vaccination programs, and health departments. At the end of the session, there was much congratulations going around for the 'difficult choices made.' If this is a preview of health care reform, we can do without it.