Growing evidence shows the health benefits of plant-based diets. Last year US insurance company HealthIQ started offering vegans lower life insurance, claiming their diet makes them healthier and therefore more likely to live longer.
Now a company in Israel has started offering the country’s vegan population (five percent) a discount on its health plans.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Clal Insurance ‘has established a Vegans Pay Less [VPL] initiative, developing specific life and health insurance plans for vegans, which include a significant discount’.
Read the full story here on Plant Based News.
This is yet another development in Israel’s rapidly growing vegan movement – it has more vegans per capita than anywhere else in the world, as the BBC reports on here.
