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How is Going Raw Vegan, Going Green ?

#1 “There is almost 7 billion people in the world. Many eat cooked meals several times every day. chop wood or burn oil, Then there’s fast food dinners burning electricity etc etc. think about the amount of greenhouse gases produced each day to cook all that food. At 2 or 3 meals a day that’s something like 15 billion meals every day 7 days a week 52 weeks a year.” by Alexander

#2 “Another reason that people follow a vegan diet has to do with environmental concerns. Take this fact, for example: The world’s cattle alone consume a quantity of food equal to the caloric needs of 8.7 billion people–more than the entire human population on Earth. If we stop feeding all our land’s output to farmed animals, there will be more food for humans to eat.”

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#3 Why Vegan ? Animal-Based Diets Are Ruining The Earth, By School of Rawk =)

Sometimes the Truth is Hard to Look at, this is even more eye opening.

“The following information was put together by activist & researcher Kim McCoy:

Animals raised for food produce 130 times more excrement than the entire human population—-86,600 lbs per second! This usually leaches into streams and contaminates groundwater. In fact, nearly 90% of all U.S. farms drain into just one body of water—-the Mississippi River .

Animal waste lagoons on livestock farms release large amounts of toxic fumes such as ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, and methane—-greenhouse gas which contributes to global warming—-into the atmosphere.

Nearly 90% of all agricultural land in the U.S. is used to raise animals for food. Twenty times more land is required to feed a meat-eater than to feed a vegan.

For every quarter-pound burger made of rainforest beef, 55 square feet of land are consumed.

Livestock grazing is the #1 threat to our rainforests—-our largest oxygen supply.

Nearly 50% of all water consumed in the U.S. is used for livestock. The production of one pound of California beef requires a total of 2464 gallons of water. You would save more water by not eating a pound of California beef than you would by not showering for 6 months.

U.S. livestock production uses more than 30% of the country’s raw materials and fossil fuels. Producing a single hamburger patty uses enough fossil fuels to drive a small car 20 miles, not to mention enough water for 17 showers.

Fish and shrimp farms destroy habitats and contaminate water with heavy use of antibiotics, causing coastal pollution, displacement of local people from their land, and the clearing of large tracts of coastal forests. It also uses the land that is traditionally used for growing rice, the primary staple for most of the world’s people.

Just like their land-dwelling counterparts, fish and shrimp are highly inefficient converters of protein. Factory trawlers use long lines with thousands of hooks and huge nets, spanning up to 80 miles. These lines wreak havoc, destroying the ocean floor and drowning everything in their path, including seabirds, seals, dolphins, sea turtles, and countless other species.

It takes 5 lbs of wild ocean fish to feed and produce a single pound of farmed saltwater fish or shrimp, so avoiding wild- or ocean-caught fish will not solve the environmental devastation.

Open waste lagoons on factory farms store urine and liquefied manure, home to more than 150 pathogens (disease causing organisms) such as Salmonella, E. coli, and more. These pathogens are 10 – 100 times more concentrated than in human waste and pose a serious threat to human health.

Livestock are simply not efficient converters of protein—it takes 17lbs of grain to produce 1 lb of beef. As the meat industry devotes more and more grain to feeding livestock, valuable food resources are diverted from the hungry. If Americans were to reduce their beef consumption by only 5% it would free up the 12 million tons of grain needed to adequately feed every single person on the planet who dies from hunger or hunger-related diseases annually.”

*****What are your thoughts on this, what would you add to this ?

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