About being a vegetarian for a week? Environmental benefits?!


Question: About being a vegetarian for a week? Environmental benefits?
Hello. Thanks for reading this question. :) I've been a vegetarian since 25 June 2009. I became a vegetarian, for many reasons, one of those reasons being my extreme concern for our environment. I know that factory farms are a huge source of pollution, the kind of pollution that degrades our environment every single day, etc. In all honesty, reading about human impact stuns me, and hurts me very deeply. I would like to start a local campaign, but wish to start on a small level. I would like to make a Facebook status about a few facts about why it would be extremely helpful if everyone could be vegetarian for a week, however, I don't know how to put my information into a small amount of words. Could anyone help me figure out what to say?
Thanks in advance x

Answers:

The raising of animals for food is responsible for the creation of more greenhouse gases than all forms of transportation combined. Switching to a plant based diet is the single most influential action a person can take to combat global warming.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?Ne…

Check out writings at the Vegetarian Resource Group http://www.vrg.org and PETA http://www.peta.org and Vegan.com http://www.vegan.com/ and Vegsource http://www.vegsource.com/

I've been vegan for 20 years, for many reasons. The environmental impact of raising animals for food is a big one, from how much waste the actual animals generate (when they're alive & disposing of all the inedible body parts when they're slaughtered) to all the food that needs to be grown to feed them to all the water used in all parts of the process of raising them and then preparing their bodies for food.

The ethical aspects of raising the billions of animals for painful, barbaric slaughter and the fact that most of those animals are simply not healthy creatures, so how can it be healthy to eat them?

I wish you good fortune.

Living a vegan life the past 20 years, and counting.

These guys offer resources including posters for a week long vegetarian challenge. Check it out
http://www.veg.ca/content/view/26/56/

Here are there promotional suggestions
http://veg.ca/content/view/155/

(it is Canadian but open to anywhere)

A cow uses 12 acres of rainforest land to graze on.

Rainforests take 50 million years to grow.

Feeding, housing, killing and storing a cow's body take 1000 gallons of water for 100 lbs of food.
Vegetable crops take 5 gallons of water for 1000 lbs of food. ( insert the correct numbers)

The pollution made from slaughterhouses is the worst pollutant on earth. greater than car fumes and airplane diesel ( insert KG per carcas).

The rainforest keep earth's air clean. A chunk of forest the size of switzerland ( delaware, some American state so stupid people know what you mean) is gone forever EVERy year, due to cattle grazing.

Your meat is using up more energy than a night in Las Vegas.

PS the day Michael Jackson died?


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