fredag 31. oktober 2014

Animal Agriculture

I watched Kip Andresens film: Cowspiracy 5 times in 2 weeks. The information there blew my mind totally. I want to share the information with you.

We all talk about global warming and climate change and until now no one have been focusing on the greatest problem of them all.
The film started out showing that the UN showed a report that cattle produce 18% of all greenhouse gases compared to all transportation: Cars, busses, trucks, trains and plains together that creates 13% greenhouse gases. (18% VS 13%)
Also water use is shocking! The water used for production of natural gases takes 100 billion gallons of water (379 billin liters) Compare that to livestocks it takes 34 trillion gallons of water. (230 trillion liters) (100 Billion VS 34 trillion) The metangass they produce is about equal.

Talking of water, one McDonald's burger needs 660 gallons of water (2500 liters) to produce. It equals 2 months of showering. Would U not like to shower 2 hours a day if you knew that they cut their meat production down to only 3/4 of what it is today and still be no problems to the lack of water on earth?
We have all thise save our water campaigns. They talk about taking short showers, change the shower heads, turning off the water when you brush your teeth, repair broken sprinklers. Yet nothing about animal agriculture.

Many will say: UN must be joking, it can't be 18% greenhouse gases from Animal agriculture. U are right! 2 advisers from the world banks released an analysis that Animal Agriculture is responsible for 51% of greenhouse gases, not 18% as UN stated. This is due to all the rainforest deforestation for food to raise cattles for food. Not only that Raising animals for food takes 1/3 of the worlds fresh water, 45% of earth's land, is 91% of the burning of the Amazon, leading cause of species extinction, Ocean dead zones and habitat destruction.

Milk production takes 1000 gallons of water to produce 1 gallon of milk. (3800 liter to 4 liters)

160,000 pounds of excrement (72.600 kg) is produced every second in the United States alone. It's enough to cover every square mile to cover New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, New Delhi, Berlin, Hong Kong, London, Rio De Janeiro, Delaware, Bali, Costa Rica and Denmark combined.
This is also the main cause of poluted water in our ocean.

People care for palm oil production is responsible for 26 million acres of rainforest. A lot, still not close livestock that is responsible for 136 million acres.

All the ocean are over fished, so eating fish is not a solution either. There is to this date nothing that is called sustainable fishing. We drag up all types of sea Animals to catch the fish we want. If this happened on land, we would not accept it.

One large garden of land is what is needed to feed a vegan. Vegetarians need 3X more land. For someone that eat meat for dinner everyday it takes 18X more land to produce the food.
Is there even an question of that we should do?

New World blogs PORS : 2014

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