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/