Vegetarianism
Protest in Saudi Arabia.
How does vegetarianism affect the environment? Global warming. It’s affecting everyone. Thankfully, many people are putting themselves forward to stop it by offering a helping hand to Mother Nature. Giving is great. But giving up for a great cause is better. Meat eating plays a major role in global warming.
Raising animals for food requires massive amounts of land, food, energy and water. The byproducts of animal agriculture pollute our air and waterways. By boycotting animal products, vegetarians are helping both animals and the environment.
As the worlds appetite for meat increases, countries across the globe are bulldozing huge expanses of land to make more room for animals as well as crops to feed them. From tropical rain forests in Brazil, to ancient pine forests in China; entire eco-systems are being destroyed to fuel humans obsession with meat.
To produce animal based products is typically much less efficient than the harvesting of grains and vegetables. It requires 10 times as much crop to feed the same number of people on a vego diet. It takes as much as 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of cow flesh, Where as it takes about 180 gallons of water to produce one pound of flour.
Livestock is responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions, an even larger share than transport. Its accounts for 9% of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions most of it caused by the expansion of pastures and growing space for crops to feed the livestock. It generates even larger portions of the globes emissions then the other gases, with greater potential to heat the atmosphere: As mush as 37% of anthropogenic methane, and 65% of anthropogenic nitrous oxide, mostly from manure.
Each day, factory farms produce billions of pounds of manure, which ends up in lakes, rivers and even drinking water. Farmed animals produce about 130 times as much excrement as does the entire population of the US - 87,000 pounds of waste per second! I know, its disgusting.
Are you going to correct your eating habits?
