Impact On Environment

 

  • There is much scientific and medical evidence of the harmful effects of animal farming on individual health, environment, cruelty to many animals
  • Society impact of zoonotic diseases is very high to health, life and economy
  • Need to create goVeg/goGreen initiative to switch to better diets quickly
  • Many governments have or considered alternative food guidelines
  • Canada recommends plant based foods in their food guide
  • New Zealand government recommends vegan food
  • China recommends to reduce its meat consumption by 50%
     
     
Environmental impact of livestock farming

 

  • Humans eat 230 million tonnes of meat each year.
  • The four species – chickens, cows, sheep and pigs – need vast amounts of food and water, emit methane and other greenhouse gases and produce mountains of physical waste.
  • Environment waste and emissions account for up-to 50% from livestock farming.
  • The oil burned transporting meat to markets often thousands of miles away.
  • The electricity needed to keep the meat cool, the gas used to cook it.
  • The energy needed to plough and harvest the fields that grow the crops that the animals eat, even pumping the water that the cattle need.
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Emissions from Animal and Ocean farming

 

  • Animal agriculture is 15%-50% of emissions, 15% is all world’s transportation, emissions from agriculture expected to increase more than transport
  • United Nations’ original report (Livestock’s Long Shadow)
  • Produce lot of Methane gas emissions that are more toxic vs Co2
  • Produce 65% of worlds nitrous oxide that is 200x worse than Co2
  • Take 1/3rd of world’s fresh water
  • Agriculture run off causes less oxygen in ocean causing large dead zones
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