How am I helping the Earth by going vegan?!
What can I expect to acieve phsically & emotionally?
Am I helping out on a global level?
Before I go fully vegan, I'm doing a lot of research.
Thanks for your help!! :-)
Answers: I'm going vegan from vegetarian.
What can I expect to acieve phsically & emotionally?
Am I helping out on a global level?
Before I go fully vegan, I'm doing a lot of research.
Thanks for your help!! :-)
Hi there scottie,
I'm pleased you've taken the final plunge and gone vegan. Good on ya! Everyone achieves different emotional or spiritual results from being vegan. I found it has deeply effected my outlook on life and has made me question my impact on the world. Not just in terms of food, but all my other choices. However, veganism can effect you or others in many different ways.
It takes strength in numbers to produce improvements on a global scale. Like the old Ethiopian Proverb says, When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion. So yes you will be making a contribution on a global scale. Don't listen to those who say otherwise.
Raising animals for meat places huge environmental stresses on the earth's resources. Yes being vegan helps the environment in so many ways.
You prevent thousands of hactares of land from being cleared to produce animal feed & graze animals.
You save water. Producing 1 pound of meat requires 1000 litres of water.
Meat production and animal agriculture is one of the leading sources of CO2 emissions. From gas emissios, to land clearing, to transport and crop production. (all sources of CO2)
Massive amounts of agricultural waste goes largerly untreated into our environment. They fester in waste "lagoons" and often spill into our water ways or water tabels to pollute the environment. 1 cow produces approximately 14.6 tonnes of waste per year. They also produce hundreds of litres of methane which is 24 more times potent than CO2. Which all contribute to global warming.
Factory farming has lead to antibiotic resistanty strains of diseases. Diseases which also affect human and human health.
Animal agriculture uses thousands of litres of pesticides, herbicides and antibiotics. To raise their animals and produce thousands of tonnes of feed. These toxins are bio-accumulative and increase in concentration the higher up the food chain people consume. so 1kg of veg has less pesticides than 1kg of meat.
Some diseases have occured as a direct result of animal agriculture. One example is deadly microorganism called physteria, which is a disease caused by intensive pig farming. It is so deadly that it is considered more dangerous than ebola.
Intensive agriculture is ecologically unsustainable on a large global scale. Due to the massive energy and resource requriments to maintain it.
Vegetarian and vegans save about 100 animals per year. It's really quite simple if you do the math. So to all those who say your not making a difference, they are wrong! they simply don't understand the envrironmental implications of their actions.
We love you too. I can't believe some of the cr*p the haters posted. Report It
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