Post by GYARADOS. on Nov 10, 2009 19:39:57 GMT -5
➜It takes 300 gallons of water to feed a vegan for a day, 1,200 to feed a vegetarian, and about 4200 to feed a meat-eater.
➜If all this grain was consumed directly by humans, it would nourish five times as many people as it does after it is converted into meat, milk and eggs.
➜Six and a half times as much grain as the entire U.S. human population
➜Raising animal for "food" generates more green house gases then all the cars, trucks, train, and plane in the world combined.
➜Animal agriculture is the #1 cause of man-made dead zones (large ares of ocean which
cannot support life,“ocean deserts”)
➜One pound of meat is equal to driving an SUV 40 miles.
➜Going vegetarian does far more for the environment then switching to a hybrid car.
➜You save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you do ny not showering FOR A YEAR.
➜It takes 16lbs of grain to produce just a single pounds of meat.
➜In Costa Rica 71% of all deforested land is pasture. Nepal has lost around half of its forest land in the last 20 years mainly to sustain livestock.
➜Animal agriculture accounts for more than 80% of annual world deforestation.
90% of all Amazon rainforest land cleared since 1970 is used for meat production
➜a vegan uses one-sixth of an acre of land to satisfy his or her food requirements for a year; the average vegetarian who consumes dairy products and eggs requires about three times as
much, and the average meat-eater requires about 20 times that much land.
➜If all this grain was consumed directly by humans, it would nourish five times as many people as it does after it is converted into meat, milk and eggs.
➜Six and a half times as much grain as the entire U.S. human population
➜Raising animal for "food" generates more green house gases then all the cars, trucks, train, and plane in the world combined.
➜Animal agriculture is the #1 cause of man-made dead zones (large ares of ocean which
cannot support life,“ocean deserts”)
➜One pound of meat is equal to driving an SUV 40 miles.
➜Going vegetarian does far more for the environment then switching to a hybrid car.
➜You save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you do ny not showering FOR A YEAR.
➜It takes 16lbs of grain to produce just a single pounds of meat.
➜In Costa Rica 71% of all deforested land is pasture. Nepal has lost around half of its forest land in the last 20 years mainly to sustain livestock.
➜Animal agriculture accounts for more than 80% of annual world deforestation.
90% of all Amazon rainforest land cleared since 1970 is used for meat production
➜a vegan uses one-sixth of an acre of land to satisfy his or her food requirements for a year; the average vegetarian who consumes dairy products and eggs requires about three times as
much, and the average meat-eater requires about 20 times that much land.
