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Having a diet that includes meat, eggs, and dairy doesn't just mean the torturing of billions of sentient beings, but harms the environment and quality of human life too.
Animal agriculture accounts for half of all global emissions on the planet, and is the leading cause of climate change, water waste, and deforestation. More than 90% of the Amazon rain forest that has been cleared since 1970, is used for meat production. Every 6 seconds, an acre of rain forest is cut down for cattle farming; that's around 14,400 acres every day. 55 square feet of rain forests are torn down for every single meal with meat.
-On average, another 110 animal and insect species go extinct every day.
- 90 million tons of fish are pulled from our oceans each year. for every 1 pound of fish caught, 5 pounds of unintended marine species are pulled up and discarded as by-kill.
- confined farm animals generate more than 450 million tonnes of waste a year.
- this waste goes into waterways and oceans.
--Farming animals uses around one third of the worlds fresh water supply.
- It takes 2,400 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of meat.
-you'd save more water by not eating a pound of meat, than not showering for 6 months.
- In 2004-05, 2.9 million acres of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil were destroyed in order to grow crops to feed animals on factory farms.
- about 21,000 people die every day of hunger related causes,
-whilst food grown all around them that should go to feeding families, is fed to animals for wealthy people to eat.

- A meat eaters diet is responsible for 7 times as much greenhouse gas emissions as a vegans diet.
- If every American skipped one meal of chicken per week, it would be the equivalent of taking 500,000 cars off the road.
- if we ate the food we feed to farmed animals, we wouldn't need to grow nearly as many crops, and eliminate the need to decimate the rain forest.
-There would be more than enough food to go round for everyone.
-going vegan is more effective in fighting climate change than switching from a standard car to a hybrid.
- The united nations have suggested that a global shift toward a vegan diet is necessary to combat the worst effects of climate change.

www.pachamama.org/blog/how-ani…

Description
Having a diet that includes meat, eggs, and dairy doesn't just mean the torturing of billions of sentient beings, but harms the environment and quality of human life too.
Animal agriculture accounts for half of all global emissions on the planet, and is the leading cause of climate change, water waste, and deforestation. More than 90% of the Amazon rain forest that has been cleared since 1970, is used for meat production. Every 6 seconds, an acre of rain forest is cut down for cattle farming; that's around 14,400 acres every day. 55 square feet of rain forests are torn down for every single meal with meat.
-On average, another 110 animal and insect species go extinct every day.
- 90 million tons of fish are pulled from our oceans each year. for every 1 pound of fish caught, 5 pounds of unintended marine species are pulled up and discarded as by-kill.
- confined farm animals generate more than 450 million tonnes of waste a year.
- this waste goes into waterways and oceans.
--Farming animals uses around one third of the worlds fresh water supply.
- It takes 2,400 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of meat.
-you'd save more water by not eating a pound of meat, than not showering for 6 months.
- In 2004-05, 2.9 million acres of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil were destroyed in order to grow crops to feed animals on factory farms.
- about 21,000 people die every day of hunger related causes,
-whilst food grown all around them that should go to feeding families, is fed to animals for wealthy people to eat.

- A meat eaters diet is responsible for 7 times as much greenhouse gas emissions as a vegans diet.
- If every American skipped one meal of chicken per week, it would be the equivalent of taking 500,000 cars off the road.
- if we ate the food we feed to farmed animals, we wouldn't need to grow nearly as many crops, and eliminate the need to decimate the rain forest.
-There would be more than enough food to go round for everyone.
-going vegan is more effective in fighting climate change than switching from a standard car to a hybrid.
- The united nations have suggested that a global shift toward a vegan diet is necessary to combat the worst effects of climate change.

www.pachamama.org/blog/how-ani…