500,000 animals are slaughtered in the United States every HOUR for meat
100 acres of land produce enough beef for only 20 people, whereas those same 100 acres can produce enough wheat to feed 200 people.
440 million tons of grain are fed to cattle each year, while 500 million people starve to death in poor countries.
One child dies of malnutrition every 2.3 seconds. If Americans reduced their meat consumption by 10%, one hundred million people could be fed using that freed up land.
Half of the world’s rainforests have been razed for cattle grazing for beef. Most of these rainforests are in poor countries, and the meat is exported to wealthy countries like the United States. Half of Central America’s rainforests have been deforested to provide the U.S. with meat.
90% of the plant and animal species on earth live in the tropics, some of which have yet to be identified. Every day more of these species are brought to extinction as a result of Americans eating meat.
High levels of pesticides, tranquilizers and antibiotics commonly used in livestock enter your bloodstream when you consume meat. Of all the antibiotics used in the U.S., 55% are given to livestock.
It takes 14 gallons of water to produce a pound of wheat but it takes 2,500 gallons to produce ONE pound of beef. If taxpayers did not subsidize these water costs, beef would cost $35.00 a pound.
85% of the four million acres of topsoil lost each year is due to raising livestock. In order to make up for this loss, we destroy forests. Since 1967, the rate of deforestation in the United States has been one acre every five seconds. For each acre cleared in urbanization, seven are cleared for grazing or growing livestock feed.
Each time you replace a meat meal with a vegetarian one, you save at least 2.5 pounds of greenhouse gases.
Reducing meat consumption by 20% (1 1/2 days per week) is the equivalent of switching to a hybrid car.
sorry for the americanized pov on these ones, but what the hey.
they're valid and dedusts the part of me that truly worries for the future of our fragile planet (blabla)
but how make it better, how reduce our impact, how to begin this journey into awakening and such?
go figure.
ottttther than that
it's friggin freezing i want to move my ass further south (and pick with me all the fruits and vegs i meet on my way), i absolutely miss the warming healthbringing sun, i miss the sweet sweet feeling of swimming in the ocean, i miss the peace a totally new place brings, as if we were drugged. the new impulses.
but travelling hurts the environment bad.
so i'll be taking a lot of trains from this point on.
as should you
as a very cool firend of my mom once said
"i arrive at the same time"
uhm. like. whatever.
sex. money. death.
(so my t-shirt says)
apaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaart
from
that
listen
to
superfamily
they'll
do
you
some
good
and. propagandhi.
they're on spotify fy fy fy fy fa fa fa gah gah gahgha dsklgj ijaig
IknowWhatisuPWithThat?
