How does being a vegetarian effect the environment?!
Rainforests are cleared to raise (feed) cattle for beef. At least 50% of the world’s rainforests have been cleared to date.
Help save dwindling water supplies. Masses amount of water is used to grow grain to fatten animals just for meat consumption.
According to a recent Newsweek article; it takes 13,250 litres of water to produce one steak. To produce just 4.5 kilos of steak requires the same amount of water as is used by an average household for an entire year.
There is a world shortage of grain for humans, as this grain is being grown to fatten animals just for meat consumption. According to a Cornell University study in the USA, the amount of grain consumed by animals being raised for slaughter in the meat industry, could feed approximately 800 million hungry people.
According to the World Watch Institute, it takes 7kg of grain to produce 1kg of beef, 2kg of grain to produce 1kg of poultry and 2kg of grain to produce 1kg of farmed fish. Producing animal protein takes up to 15 times more water compared with producing plant protein.
With a vegan diet you have less packaging to throw away into landfill.
With a vegan diet you have less greasy pots and pans to wash every night and less toxic washing-up liquid down the drain
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Answers: According to a study published in 2007, the production of a kilogram of beef generates the equivalent of 36.4 kilograms of carbon dioxide.
Rainforests are cleared to raise (feed) cattle for beef. At least 50% of the world’s rainforests have been cleared to date.
Help save dwindling water supplies. Masses amount of water is used to grow grain to fatten animals just for meat consumption.
According to a recent Newsweek article; it takes 13,250 litres of water to produce one steak. To produce just 4.5 kilos of steak requires the same amount of water as is used by an average household for an entire year.
There is a world shortage of grain for humans, as this grain is being grown to fatten animals just for meat consumption. According to a Cornell University study in the USA, the amount of grain consumed by animals being raised for slaughter in the meat industry, could feed approximately 800 million hungry people.
According to the World Watch Institute, it takes 7kg of grain to produce 1kg of beef, 2kg of grain to produce 1kg of poultry and 2kg of grain to produce 1kg of farmed fish. Producing animal protein takes up to 15 times more water compared with producing plant protein.
With a vegan diet you have less packaging to throw away into landfill.
With a vegan diet you have less greasy pots and pans to wash every night and less toxic washing-up liquid down the drain
.
You will save the animals... And they will not go extinct
If animal populations grow to large they will starve. I dont believe that animals should be hunted solely for sport. I think if you are killing it you should be utilizing it. I think it is a lot more humane to kill an animal for food than to let it starve to death because there is not enough food to accomodate over population.
Ghostly Helena i just wanted to say even if people still cary one eating animals (chicken, cow, lamb,fish) they will not become extinct coz they just keep cruely breeding them and then slaughtering them i'm a vegetarian though!
According to the research I've done, the number one reason for deforestation is the conversion of forested lands for cattle grazing. So according to my logic, the less meat you eat, the less cattle bred that need to be grazing, the less forests that need to be chopped down!
you are helping the environment
meat production = one of the leading causes of pollution
That's a good question. Being a vegetarian dramatically reduces the amount of land, water, and oil resources that you consume and it also reduces the amount of pollution caused.
Raising animals for food is a main cause of land degradation, air pollution, water shortage, water pollution, loss of biodiversity, and global warming. The United Nations published a 2006 report that said: "The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global."
More info:
http://www.goveg.com/environment.asp
What Karen said. Also: It takes ten times the fossil fuels to produce a calorie of meat than it does to produce a calorie of plant food. Soy is even more efficient--it takes 40 times the fossil fuels to produce meat as it does to produce soy. The U.S. EPA reported that runoff from CAFOs contributes more to water pollution than all other industrial sources combined. The meat industry also uses massive, massive amounts of water and artificial fertilizers. Seventy percent of all grains grown in the U.S. go to feed these animals who are turned into food.
Dearie, this would take a novel to respond to.
First off, it takes 22 pounds of grain and 5200 gallons of water to produce one edible pound of beef. That's enough food and water for a whole family for over a month just for one person's dinner. 16 ounces in a pound, when the average person only needs 4 ounces of protein a day. Money down the toilet.
Just look at factory farms where animals are packed shoulder to shoulder in disgusting conditions. It saves the farmers money not allowing them to roam around and distribute their poop as fertilizer. So they stand on concrete slabs and their poop is rinsed away creating maneur lagoons which are destroying our eco-systems.
Our planet is running out of both water and grain to support our love of cow flesh.
Not to mention the deforestation going on just for places like Burger King.
Watch the Meatrix.