There are many people in today's society, especially among our age group (17-25) that are trying to live more healthy lives than the one's we were brought up with. Many of us are children of the 80's who remember, or remember being told, about Reagan's push for Ketchup to count as a serving of vegetables in public school lunches. Now many programs are in place trying to correct old misconceptions and bad eating habits. Because of this, and with the wave of new internet technology, you can find thousands of websites devoted to simple organic or natural living, like the website "Organic Authority", or "Vegan Action". Many new grocery stores have popped up, like Whole Foods or Trader Joe's (just two of the many!) who's entire purpose is to promote healthy organic living. Even the government has gotten in on the action, requiring more and more health information on every food label, and even going as far as to try and ban trans-fat from restaurants in certain cities like Los Angeles. You can even see the difference in fast food chains, like McDonald's (known for its unhealthy foods, it was exposed in a documentary, "Super Size Me", several years ago) who now offer whole grain bread and low fat options for sides instead of its legendary "Super Size" meal. We are trying harder and harder to eat healthier and healthier, but one product seems to be immune from all the hubbub. Birth Control.

The logic is incredible! A woman in our society will refuse to purchase meats infused with growth hormones and buy veggie burgers or naturally grown meat instead, but will purchase her birth control pills at the same grocery store. Girls who insist on taking daily vitamins are taking their daily pill along with them. Couples who claim to be vegan or vegetarian applauded the FDA's approval of the morning after pill, when a quick glance at the ingredients list would tell them that gelatin, a product of horse and pig hoofs, is among the ingredients. That same couple, while donating time and money to PETA, will also donate money to contraceptive research, without realizing how much animal research is really involved! When will this sick cycle end?

The Pill is not only a high dose of hormones, a significantly unnatural level for a woman's body, but these hormones are also synthetic! They were lab created, and tested on mice and monkeys, to perfect a way of keeping a woman's natural cycle de-feminized. Not only that, but almost all condoms and birth control pills contain lactose, the sugar produced in milk, which is purely non-vegan, and could even cause severe allergic reactions in some people. The pharmaceutical corporations will try to argue that some women need this drug in order to maintain normal lives because of medical conditions such as PCOS and others. The truth is that there is no reason whatsoever to need to take birth control. It is a purely "cosmetic" drug. For any medical concern, be it PCOS, acne, irregular periods, amenorrhea, and others, there are alternative medicinal options available.

Don't be confused. There is absolutely no Vegan or Organic method of birth control outside of Natural Family Planning (or periodic abstinence). Natural sex is the only real "Safe Sex"!