Why vegan – for the environment & our planet

The common believe that the main reason for the climate change and the huge carbon footprint is the waste gas of cars and other transportation has been stated wrong.

According to United Nations Scientists, the meat industry is the leading cause of climate change, water depletion, soil erosion and most other environmental problems.

 

Greenhouse gas emission and waste

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source: unsplash

The animal agriculture – livestock and their by products – is responsible for 51% (32000 million tons) of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, which is more than the combined exhaust from all transportation. If we all stopped using any types of transportation (car, train, plane and ships) today it still wouldn’t matter to the environment as much as to stop consuming that much meat.

Not only does the animal agriculture damage the environment with the greenhouse gas emissions but also with the waste produced by the animals.

Every minute, 7 million pounds (~3175147kg) of excrement are produced by animals raised for food, only in the US.

Another unbelievable fact: A farm with 2500 dairy cows produces the same amount of waste as a city of 411000 people.

This waste is so much that it gets in the water, seeps into the ground water and pollutes the earth’s rivers, seas, lakes and groundwater.

 

Water reserves

source: pexels
source: pexels

This is a huge one. When I started to really research and dig deeper into the environmental exposure caused by the animal agriculture, I found endless facts about the generous water consumption.

There are parts in the world (example California) that are running short on water and the population is urged to safe water. Despite all those tips on how to proceed the best there is one huge fact that actually doesn’t get addressed: deflate the animal agriculture. To produce one pound (~0.4kg) of beef it requires 2500 gallons (~9464L) of water because the animals eat very water intensive grains.

Transferred into daily life, it means that if you ate one hamburger you basically just consumed the water of 2 months of showering.

Looking at this in the annual context the animal agriculture water consumption ranges from 34-76 trillion gallons (~129-288 trillion L).

Only 5% of the water use is used by domestic use but 55% for animal agriculture. Raising animals for food consumes 1/3 of the entire planet’s fresh water.

 

Here some more crazy numbers:

Humans nowadays raise 70 billion farm animals.

The human population drinks 5.2 billion gallons (~19 billion L) and eats 21 billion pounds (~9 billion kg) per day.

The world’s 1.5 billion cows alone drink 45 billion gallons (~170 billion L) and eat 135 billion pounds (~61 billion kg) per day.

 

Deforestation

source: pexels
source: pexels

The 70 billion farm animals we raise require massive amounts of lands. For one they have to graze and need land to be kept (cattle-ranching), and on the other hand they eat tons and tons of crops which need to be grown somewhere. Therefore humans started to destroy forests – livestock and feed crops are the leading causes for rainforest destruction.

More than 250 million acres (~1 million square km) of forests are cleared every year in the US alone for grazing land.

Every second the size of one football field is cleared just for the animal agriculture’s sake.

Despite all the other reasons for deforestation – like the desire for oil palm plantations – the animal agriculture is responsible for 91% of amazon destruction.

 

The oceans

source: pexels
source: pexels

Even the oceans suffer from the huge demand of seafood. For every pound (~0.4kg) of caught fish, up to 5 pounds (~2.3kg) of unintended marine species are caught and discarded as by-kill. So by eating a sea creature, one isn’t only responsible for one life but for many many more.

2.7 trillion animals are pulled from the ocean each year which could result in fishless oceans by 2048.

Animal agriculture attacks and destroys every part of the earth’s original design.

 

Other environmental problems

Comparing the numbers the animal agriculture is a waste of land and grain to this extent. Livestock covers 45% of the earth’s total land, and whereas 1.5 acres (~6070 square m) can produce 37,000 pounds (~16783kg) of plant based food, 1.5 acres can only produce 375 pounds (~170kg) of meat.

Last but not least some more strong numbers: In order to produce enough meat to support a person for a year it requires about 2000 pounds (~907kg) of grain. If 400 pounds (~181kg) of grain a year are eaten directly it is enough to support a person on a plant based diet.

 

Adapting to a vegan lifestyle helps to protect water reserves, fertile lands and cuts down greenhouse gas emissions.

To be very clear and specific:

Each day a person who eats a vegan diet saves 1.100 gallons (~4164L) of water, 45 pounds (~20kg) of grain, 30 square feet (~2.8 square metres) of forest land, 20 pounds (~9kg) CO2 and one animal’s life.

 

 

 

To make it more clear and avoid an overload of information I divided reasons to go vegan in 4 categories:

 

If you are looking for more information and other sources there are …

  • lots of videos on YouTube you could check out, like “Earthlings”, “best speech ever”, “Cowspiracy”, “101 reasons to go vegan”, or “farm to fridge”…
  • And also some amazing, mind blowing and heart opening movies like “what the health”, “forks over knifes”, “fat, sick & nearly dead”, “food, inc.”

 

*I just want this to be very clear: I do not want to attack anybody personally with any of my blog posts. My intentions simply reside in educating and opening eyes to what really is going on. I wish I stumbled over stuff like this years ago and changed my diet earlier, so I’m simply trying to do my best in providing such for others.*

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