HAPPY EARTH DAY! – and a reminder that taking animals out of your diet is the kindest thing you can do for our planet.
Let's take a moment to dissect this point by point – shall we?
RESTORE THE LAND - More than half of the flat land on the Earth is used to feed, house or graze animals. If everyone went vegan, we could grow far more food on far less land and convert that extra space to beautiful forests, savannas and prairies.
CLEAN THE AIR - The dangerously foul air emitting from the billions of tons of badly stored animal waste is threatening the health an well-being of millions of people around the world.
SAVE THE OCEANS - More than half of the fish and other sea creatures have disappeared due to overfishing and more than half of the plastic waste in our oceans is discarded fishing nets and other detritus from the commercial fishing industry.
PROTECT BIODIVERSITY - One of the gravest threats to our future is the rapid loss of natural habitat including the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and the rapid desertification of the Western United States. Thousands of diverse ecosystems around the world are being destroyed and replaced by monocultures designed around the animals we eat.
GROW MORE FOOD - Each grazing cow ties more than an acre of land for as long as she feeds on it. An acre of land containing a diverse crop of plants could continually feed a small community. Each 100 calories we feed farm animals results in only 18 calories of meat – a net loss of more than 80%.
FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE - Animal agriculture produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, buses, trains, aircraft, ships and every other transportation system combined. If everyone stopped eating animals, it would keep enough carbon and methane out of the air to prevent a climate catastrophe.
REDUCE EXTINCTIONS - In the last 500,000,000 years, there have been five major extinction events, though a sixth one is underway and this one is almost entirely caused by human intervention, mostly because of the destruction of rainforests, oceans and other natural areas to make room for more land to feed and graze animals. Thousands of animal and plant species go extinct each year.
PREVENT PANDEMICS - Most major pandemics, including AIDS, Ebola, SARS and probably Covid originated in human contact with infected animals. Today, the 70 billion land animals we eat are raised in massive germ factories and many scientists are worried that tortured and overcrowded chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese are continually producing new strains of Avian flu, some of which are infecting many wild birds and mammals, including humans.
ENSURE OUR FUTURE - For all of the reasons listed above, our children and their descendants are being cheated out of the kind of life we currently enjoy. If we can persuade a critical mass of people to switch to a vegan diet and lifestyle, we will help provide a much brighter, healthier and more abundant world for future generations.
Let's take a moment to dissect this point by point – shall we?
RESTORE THE LAND - More than half of the flat land on the Earth is used to feed, house or graze animals. If everyone went vegan, we could grow far more food on far less land and convert that extra space to beautiful forests, savannas and prairies.
CLEAN THE AIR - The dangerously foul air emitting from the billions of tons of badly stored animal waste is threatening the health an well-being of millions of people around the world.
SAVE THE OCEANS - More than half of the fish and other sea creatures have disappeared due to overfishing and more than half of the plastic waste in our oceans is discarded fishing nets and other detritus from the commercial fishing industry.
PROTECT BIODIVERSITY - One of the gravest threats to our future is the rapid loss of natural habitat including the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and the rapid desertification of the Western United States. Thousands of diverse ecosystems around the world are being destroyed and replaced by monocultures designed around the animals we eat.
GROW MORE FOOD - Each grazing cow ties more than an acre of land for as long as she feeds on it. An acre of land containing a diverse crop of plants could continually feed a small community. Each 100 calories we feed farm animals results in only 18 calories of meat – a net loss of more than 80%.
FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE - Animal agriculture produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, buses, trains, aircraft, ships and every other transportation system combined. If everyone stopped eating animals, it would keep enough carbon and methane out of the air to prevent a climate catastrophe.
REDUCE EXTINCTIONS - In the last 500,000,000 years, there have been five major extinction events, though a sixth one is underway and this one is almost entirely caused by human intervention, mostly because of the destruction of rainforests, oceans and other natural areas to make room for more land to feed and graze animals. Thousands of animal and plant species go extinct each year.
PREVENT PANDEMICS - Most major pandemics, including AIDS, Ebola, SARS and probably Covid originated in human contact with infected animals. Today, the 70 billion land animals we eat are raised in massive germ factories and many scientists are worried that tortured and overcrowded chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese are continually producing new strains of Avian flu, some of which are infecting many wild birds and mammals, including humans.
ENSURE OUR FUTURE - For all of the reasons listed above, our children and their descendants are being cheated out of the kind of life we currently enjoy. If we can persuade a critical mass of people to switch to a vegan diet and lifestyle, we will help provide a much brighter, healthier and more abundant world for future generations.
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