Thread by @brettdbennett

The World is run by Corporates who are destroying the Planet for profit. Going #Vegan🌱 is the most powerful thing you can do as an individual to fight #ClimateCrisis & #AnimalCruelty in one simple act.

Livestock and their byproducts account for 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions - #Cowspiracy facts.

Livestock is responsible for 65% of all human-related emissions of nitrous oxide – a greenhouse gas with 296x the global warming potential of carbon dioxide, and which stays in the atmosphere for 150 years - #Cowspiracy facts.

Animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution, and habitat destruction - #Cowspiracy facts.

1/3 of the planet is desertified, with livestock as the leading driver - #Cowspiracy facts.

In the U.S. alone, livestock produce 116,000 lbs of waste per second - #Cowspiracy facts

3/4 of the world’s fisheries are exploited or depleted - #Cowspiracy facts

We could see fishless oceans by 2048 - #Cowspiracy facts

As many as 2.7 trillion animals are pulled from the ocean each year - #Cowspiracy facts.

For every 1 pound of fish caught, up to 5 pounds of unintended marine species are caught and discarded as by-kill - #Cowspiracy facts.

As many as 40% (63 billion pounds) of fish caught globally every year are discarded - #Cowspiracy facts.

Scientists estimate as many as 650,000 whales, dolphins and seals are killed every year by fishing vessels - #Cowspiracy facts.

Animal agriculture is responsible for up to 91% of Amazon destruction - #Cowspiracy facts.

1-2 acres of rainforest are cleared every second (that's 86,000+ football fields a day) - #Cowspiracy facts.

Up to 137 plant, animal and insect species are lost every day due to rainforest destruction - #Cowspiracy facts.

So far over 136 million rainforest acres have been cleared for animal agriculture - #Cowspiracy facts.

1,100 Land activists have been killed in Brazil in the past 20 years - #Cowspiracy facts.

10,000 years ago, 99% of biomass (i.e. zoomass) was wild animals. Today, Humans and the animals that we raise as food make up 98% of the zoomass - #Cowspiracy facts.

World population in 1912: 1.5 billion; 2022: 8 billion - #Cowspiracy facts.

70 billion farmed animals are reared annually worldwide. More than 6 million animals are killed for food every hour - #Cowspiracy facts.

82% of starving children live in countries where food is fed to animals, and those animals are eaten by western countries - #Cowspiracy facts.

A person who follows a #Vegan🌱 diet produces the equivalent of 50% less carbon dioxide, uses 1/11th oil, 1/13th water, and 1/18th land compared to a meat-lover for their food - #Cowspiracy facts.

Each day, a person who eats a #Vegan🌱 diet saves 1,100 gallons of water, 45 pounds of grain, 30 sq ft of forested land, 20 lbs CO2 equivalent, and one animal’s life - #Cowspiracy facts.

If you know me, you know I loved meat and will be shocked to hear I've gone #Vegan🌱 after watching #Cowspiracy. It feels good to know in the last week, I've saved at least 7 animals' lives, 210 sq ft of forested land, and 140lb of CO2 to help fight the #ClimateCrisis