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Did you know that consuming meat products can cause many damages to our environment? Yes indeed. Compared with vegetables and grains, farming animals requires a lot more land, more water and more energy. Lets go through some facts Thirty percent of the globe?s ice-free land is devoted to livestock production, with 26 percent of all land on Earth devoted to animal grazing and 33 percent of arable land used for feed production. The resources going into animal feed could feed four billion people. Meat production is water-intensive as well. And industrial farming methods have speed up the degradation of the soil. In fact, it?s the factory-scale production of meat—ramped up to fuel an increasing taste for meat in developing nations trying to keep up with industrialized countries—that is most to blame for consuming these resources. Livestock production is responsible for 18 percent of the Earth?s greenhouse gas emissions, which fuel climate change. Cheese comes from ruminant animals which generate methane, a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Livestock farming, vegans say, has a devastating effect on our planet. A vegan believes that producing food through animal farming is inefficient, because animal feed production takes up a lot of land, fertilizer, water, and other resources - resources that could be used for feeding humans. In the pursuit of higher yields, most vegans believe that livestock farms are accelerating topsoil erosion lowering its productivity for the cultivation of crops. A great deal of wilderness is converted to grazing and farm land because of this. A significant amount of pollution in groundwater and rivers comes from animal waste from massive feedlots and factory farms. More people globally could be fed on existing land if we all became vegans. For more information, visit http://ecowatch.com/2014/11/21/vegetarian-diet-climate-change/ |
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21 Comments
Let's make this change :)
Posted 01-12-2014 20:12
You all are welcome!
Posted 01-12-2014 18:55
I am not a vegan myself but I can see why some people choose that lifestyle . It is definitely healthier :) Thank you for sharing
Posted 30-11-2014 23:46
Well written & nicely portrayed with charts & graphs. I support vegan living.
But this is a matter of personal choice, I believe.
Posted 30-11-2014 18:09
And I agree With @Jung lin , we must reduce the amount of meat if we couldnt stop it !
Posted 30-11-2014 07:01
Thanks Afra
Posted 30-11-2014 06:59
nice information!
Posted 30-11-2014 02:06
nice pictures :)
Posted 30-11-2014 01:17
useful information
Posted 30-11-2014 01:16
Thank you for sharing, Afra!
Posted 28-11-2014 20:42
Really interesting! Awesome graphs.
Thank you for sharing it and maybe think about changing the font colour the next time )
Posted 28-11-2014 13:21
This is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many other ways, more efficient ways to be eco friendly. For instance, carpooling, using electric cars, etc...
Posted 28-11-2014 07:58
I understand now that I need to rethink my habits!
Posted 28-11-2014 07:17
Although I appreciate your point that we should reduce consuming anything making of which increases carbon emissions like meat etc. But another angle is that if entire world turns vegetarian then it will exert extra burden on plants from which veg food comes. There would be ecological-imbalance . Meat consumption should be reduced to sustainable levels.
Thanks for sharing. I liked your cheese slice(sorry cheese slide):-)
Posted 28-11-2014 03:37
Thank you all for your comments
Posted 28-11-2014 03:10
This pictures really help to understand the problem more deeply.
Posted 28-11-2014 02:09
useful information
Posted 27-11-2014 23:18
I am a vegetarian as well!
Thank you for sharing this so we can understand the seriousness of this issue:)
Posted 27-11-2014 23:04
great information!!!
Posted 27-11-2014 22:18
Excess of meat can cause a lot of problems in our body.
Posted 27-11-2014 21:35
Thank you for sharing! These pictures really illustrate the seriousness of this problem. Although not all of us are willing to stop eating meat, we should really reduce the amount we consume!
Posted 27-11-2014 19:45