Thread by @ancient_bharat

We're going to talk about a really INCONVENIENT TRUTH:
You cant be a Non-Vegan Environmentalist!

If you care about Climate Change,You should STOP EATING MEAT
Why?

Number 1 leading cause of #ClimateCrisis & #GlobalWarming is MEAT ind.
then doesn't that need to be number 1 focus?

MEAT industry is the leading cause of deforestation,water consumption & pollution.

It is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the transportation industry!

It is a primary driver of rain-forest destruction,species extinction.

And virtually every other environmental ill.

One quarter-pound MEAT hamburger requires over 660 gallons of water to produce.

Here, I've been taking these short showers trying to save water, and to find out :

"Eating 1 MEAT burger = 2 months showering"
(based on taking a 4-minute daily shower with a 2.5 gpm shower head)

So much attention is given to lowering our HOME water use, yet domestic water use is only 5% of what is consumed versus 55% for animal agriculture!!

That's because it takes upwards of 2,500 gallons of water to produce JUST ONE pound of BEEF!

You have the choice every single day to SAVE over :

1,100 gallons of water,
45 pounds of grain,
30 square feet of forested land,
the equivalent of 10 pounds of C02, and
one animal's life.

Every single day, just by going veg.

To feed a person on an all-plant based diet for a year requires just 1/6 of an acre of land.

To feed MEAT eater requires 18 times as much land.

This is because you can produce 53,000 pounds of vegetables on 1 ACRE.

But ONLY 250 pounds of MEAT on that same plot of land!

We are currently growing enough food to feed 10 billion people.

Worldwide, at least 50% of grain is fed to livestock.

82% of starving children live in countries where FOOD is fed to animals, and the animals are eaten by non-vegetarian or MEAT eaters!!

commondreams.org/views/2012/05/…

World population in

1812: 1 billion;
1912: 1.5 billion;
2020: 7.5 billion;

70 billion farmed animals are reared annually worldwide.

More than 6 million animals are KILLED FOR FOOD every hour!!

ciwf.org.uk/media/3640540/…

An Inconvenient Truth :
Climate change stands to affect all life on this planet.

From monster storms, raging wildfires, record droughts, ice caps melting, acidification of the oceans,
to entire countries going underwater, that could all be caused by humans' demands on the Earth.

There was a report published by United Nations,stating that LIVESTOCK produces more greenhouse gases than emissions of the ENTIRE transportation sector!

This means that MEAT industry produces more greenhouse gases than the exhaust of all cars,trucks,trains,boats,planes combined!

Farmed animals produce a substantial amount of methane from their digestive process.

Methane gas from livestock is 86 times more destructive than CO2 from vehicles.

I'd been riding cycle to reduce emissions
But it turns out,there's more to climate change than just fossil fuels!

The U.N., along with other agencies, reported that not only did LIVESTOCK play a major role in global warming..

It is also the leading cause of resource consumption and environmental degradation destroying the planet today!!

How is it possible that we weren't aware about this?

I thought this information would be plastered EVERYWHERE in the environmental community!

You're thinking that too, right ?

I went to the nation's largest environmental organization's websites..

350 org,
Greenpeace,
Sierra Club,
Climate Reality,
Rainforest Action Network,
Amazon Watch,

And was shocked to see they had
virtually NOTHING on animal agriculture!!

What is going on?

Why wouldn't they have this information on their main page?

It seemed the main focus for many of these groups was natural gas and oil production, with fracking being the latest hot issue due to water usage and contamination.

Hydraulic fracturing for natural gas uses an incredible amount of water.

A staggering 100 billion gallons of water is used every year in the United States.

But when I compared this with animal agriculture, raising livestock just in the US consumes 34 TRILLION gallons of water.

And it turns out the methane emissions from both industries are nearly EQUAL.

Clearly, ANY government did not want to talk about this issue.

Their inability to answer, along with the environmental organization's silence on the topic of animal agriculture, made it seem something more is going on...

By doing more investigating on the impacts of livestock and found out the situation was actually worse than I'd thought!!

The transportation &energy sectors are understandably given a lot of attention because of the terrible impact
CO2 is having on our climate.

But animal agriculture produces 65% of the world's nitrous oxide!
Gas with a global warming potential 296 times greater than CO2 per pound!

Yet all we hear about is fossil fuels!!

Energy-related CO2 emissions are expected to increase 20% by the year 2040.

Yet emissions from agriculture are predicted to increase 80% by 2050.

This devastating figure is mostly due to a projected global increase in MEAT consumption.

According to two environmental specialists at the World Bank Group, using the global standard
for measuring greenhouse gases, concluded that animal agriculture is responsible for 51% of human-caused climate change..

BUT NOT ONLY THAT
RAISING ANIMALS FOR FOOD is responsible for 30% of the world's water consumption,
occupies up to 45% of the Earth's land,
responsible for up to 91% of Brazilian Amazon destruction,
is a leading cause of ocean dead zones,
habitat destruction,
&species extinction.

Yet the largest environmental groups that are supposed to be saving our world didn't have this as their main focus?