The list of impacts and threats of animal agriculture around the world is frightening… Greenhouse gases, amazon destruction, water consumption, discover it in this video
- 51% of greenhouse gas emissions are due to livestocks and their byproducts
- 13% of them are due to transport (road, rail, air and marine)
- A plant-based diet cuts your carbon footprint by 50%
- Livestock is responsible for 60% of Nitrous Oxide emissions (296x more destructive than cO2)
- To produce 1 Hamburger: we need 660 gallons of water, it’s equivalent to showering for two months
- The meat and dairy industry use 1/3 of earths fresh water
- 5% of the water use in the United States is for domestic, 55% comes from animal agriculture
- The waste from a farm of 2500 dairy cows is equivalent to the waste from a city of 411.000 people
- Every minute, 7 million pounds of excrement are produced by animals raised for food in the US
- 1/3 of the land is desertified due to livestock
- Livestock covers 45% of the earth’s total land
- 1.5 Acres land = 37000 Lbs plant based food or 375 lbs meat
- Land needed to feed 1 person for 1 year : For a vegan 1/6th Acre; For a meat eater 18x vegan
- 90 million tons of fish are pulled from the oceans each year
- 3/4 of the world’s fisheries are exploited
- For every 1 pound of fish caught 5 pounds of unintended marine species are caught and discarded as by-kill
- 110 animal and insect species are lost every day from rainforest destruction
- Animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution and habitat destruction
- 1 to 2 acres rainforest are cleared every second
- Acres of rainforest cleared due to palm oil : 26 million ; animal agriculture : 136 million
- Animal agriculture is responsible for 91% of amazon destruction
These information provided are taken from the website www.cowspiracy.com
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