Maybe you don’t particularly care about your health or animal welfare, but you do care about the environment and how your choices affect it.
Animal agriculture is a significant source of greenhouses gases, contributing more than all forms of transportation combined. The mono-culture method of farming required for livestock feed wrecks the soil and takes up valuable farmland. The excrement of the vast number of factory farmed animals also destroys soil quality and leeches into rivers, lakes and other water sources around factory farms.
Almost half of the surface of the Earth is being used to grow feed crops or as grazing land for animals. The Amazon rain forest is being bulldozed at the rate of nearly a football field a minute, just for more grazing land. This not only takes up room that more food could be grown at less environmental cost but also ruins the biodiversity of the soil through the monoculture practices of farming crops for animal feed. Plus, we are literally destroying the lungs of the planet in the process in this insatiable quest for more grazing land.
Learn More:
- Cowspiracy Documentary Facts Sheet
- Rich Roll Podcast: Episode 474 – Pat Brown, Impossible Foods Founder and CEO
What are the three pillars of veganism? They are the three big reasons to go plant-based – personal health, environmental health and animal welfare. Any one of these three is a good enough reason on its own.
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