“If we are in the organic, vegan trend or planting with organic, vegan farming methods, then you will feel that more and more the love from nature, the love from the planet Earth, the love from the trees, the love from even a blade of grass, from flowers. We will feel so much love in the air that we breathe. We feel so much love from the earth that we walk on. This we cannot even explain in human language. We must feel it. I always feel it, but I can’t transmit this spiritual message to other people. Everyone must experience it for himself. ” – Supreme Master Ching Hai (Vegan)
Factory farming is responsible for emitting an enormous amount of greenhouse gases, including potent gases like methane. These gases play a pivotal role in global warming and climate catastrophe. Conservative estimates show that animal agriculture is responsible for 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions—more than planes, trains, and motor vehicles combined. Clearly, animal agriculture is among the most significant contributors to today’s climate crisis—leading to extreme temperature shifts, ravaging wildfires, deadly tsunamis, and more.
Freshwater is among the most precious of resources. And yet, animal agriculture treats it as just another material to abuse. Globally, the factory farming industry has been estimated to consume close to 20% of all fresh drinking water supplies. Nearly 1,000 gallons of water are used to produce a single gallon of milk, 900 gallons of water are required to produce one pound of cheese, and a whopping 2,500 gallons of water are needed to produce a single pound of beef.
One serving of BEEF uses over 1,200 gallons of water
One serving of CHICKEN uses 330 gallons of water
One Complete VEGAN meal with TOFU, RICE, and VEGETABLES uses only 98 gallons of water 77
Fecal contamination from factory farms poisons more than the air. Water that runs near factory farms can become contaminated, too, due to improper treatment of animal waste. Since our waterways are all connected, this pollution can extend out to marine environments, emptying from rivers and streams into the ocean. This pollution has been linked to dead zones in ocean habitats, such as in the Gulf of Mexico, where researchers have observed some of the largest dead zones in the world.
“We must stop livestock grazing to protect our soil and protect our life. Overgrazing by lives tock is a major cause of desertification and other damage, and is responsible for more than 50% of land erosion.
We have only 30% of land that covers the Earth. Of that precious 30%, one-third of it is used, not for our true survival, but for livestock pasture or growing tons of grain for animal feed—all to produce a few pieces of meat.
For example, about one-billion acres or 80% of all agricultural land in the US, and about half of all US land are being used for meat production. By contrast, less than three-million acres is used to grow all the vegetables in the country.80
In Mexico, recent research stated that 47% of the land has already taken the toll of desertification due to damage from the cattle industry.81 And another 50 to 70% of the county is suffering from some degree of drought.” – From Crisis To Peace book
It’s a staggering statistic that if all 8 billion of us went plant-based, we’d reduce agricultural land use by 75%. But equally, if we all reduced our animal consumption by just half, we’d see around 37.5% reduction in land use. Which is still a huge gain for nature. Two football fields of land feed 1 non-vegan person vs 14 vegan people per year. This will allow us to feed the whole world and more, use less chemicals and save Earth’s resources.
As a primary driver of global warming – more than cars – animal agriculture is directly affecting the global ocean in two ways.
For one, animals are fed an endless stream of antibiotics and hormones, which are excreted and end up in our waterways and ocean. And even if the manure were from a strict grass-fed diet, there is still a problem: the scale on which factory farms produce animal waste creates nitrogen shocks to the environment, encouraging disease outbreak and destructive algae blooms. What is the result of all this on the ocean? Here are a few examples from the NRDC:
++ Huge open-air waste lagoons, often as big as several football fields, are prone to leaks and spills. In 1995 an eight-acre hog waste lagoon in North Carolina burst, spilling 25 million gallons of manure into the New River. The spill killed about 10 million fish and closed 364,000 acres of coastal wetlands to shellfishing.
++ Runoff of chicken and hog waste from factory farms in Maryland and North Carolina is believed to have contributed to outbreaks of Pfiesteria piscicida, killing millions of fish and causing skin irritation, short-term memory loss and other cognitive problems in local people.
++ Nutrients in animal waste cause algal blooms, which use up oxygen in the water, contributing to a “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico where there’s not enough oxygen to support aquatic life. The dead zone fluctuates in size each year, extending a record 8,500 square miles during the summer of 2002 and stretching over 7,700 square miles during the summer of 2010.
++ Ammonia, a toxic form of nitrogen released in gas form during waste disposal, can be carried more than 300 miles through the air before being dumped back onto the ground or into the water, where it causes algal blooms and fish kills.
2) Industrial animal agriculture contributes directly to sea temperature rise and ocean acidification
According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions – more than all transportation combined. As a primary driver of global warming – more than cars – animal agriculture is directly affecting the global ocean in two ways. First, the rising atmospheric temperature is raising global ocean temperatures leading to widespread coral bleaching. (Bleaching slows coral growth, makes them susceptible to disease, and leads to large-scale reef die-off). Second, a greater concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing the acidity of the global ocean, handicapping the extensive roster of marine organisms that build shells or skeletons.
3) Industrial animal agriculture hogs fresh water
Industrial animal agriculture is very water intensive. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) points out that one hamburger requires 660 gallons of water to produce – the equivalent of 2 months worth of showers.
Essentially, the once-fresh inputs of clean, natural water into the ocean are being replaced by flows of polluted farm runoff. And on a massive scale. It’s no wonder that animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution and habitat destruction, according to the EPA
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Factory farming causes deforestation in two ways: by clearing forests to raise cattle on land, and to make room for the vast mono-crops like wheat, corn, and soy needed to feed the millions of animals in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). The World Bank found factory farming to be responsible for 91 percent of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil—a critical habitat that plays a key role in maintaining the global climate.
More than 70 billion animal-people are artificially multiplied, raised and killed each year for food. To produce one kg of animal-people protein it is required more than 14 kg of plant-based protein.
If everyone ate a plant-based diet, there would be enough food to satisfy 10-billion people.
- It takes over 100 times more water to produce one pound of beef than one pound of wheat.
- It takes 16 pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef.
- It takes an average of six pounds of plant protein to produce one pound of animal protein.
- About 54 kcal of fossil fuels are needed to produce one kcal of beef protein, compared to only three kcal for one kcal of protein from grain.
- One acre of land can produce 165 pounds of beef or 20,000 pounds of potatoes.[3]
“The science is clear that if we keep exploiting wildlife and destroying our ecosystems, then we can expect to see a steady stream of these diseases jumping from animals to humans in the years ahead.”
– Inger Andersen (Executive Director, The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Zoonotic diseases are infections that are spread between people and animals. These infections are caused by germs, such as viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi. Some of the most dangerous are E.coli, salmonella, pig disease, mad cow disease, bird flu, etc.
Driving through the farmlands, you will encounter an inescapable stench that even makes it hard to breathe at times. Rotting manure (sewage sludge) and slurries is the number one source of odors on farms housing livestock and poultry. Slurry gas releases in the air methane, carbon monoxide, ammonia and hydrogen sulphide, all of which can create a risk to health. Hydrogen sulphide is the most dangerous of these and can cause nausea, disorientation, unconsciousness and death.
Factory farms are often hidden from public view, but the air pollution they cause, while invisible, is impossible to mask.
Hog and chicken factory farms are particularly devastating when it comes to air pollution, which is a direct byproduct of confining thousands of animals in small spaces. Every single animal generates waste that seeps into the soil, water, and air. Workers, and the communities that are adjacent to these facilities, are most impacted by air pollution—which can cause headaches and other chronic conditions, alongside the economic impacts of lower property values.
Due to deforestation, pollution, and climate change brought on by factory farming, what little remains of uncultivated wild habitats is at risk. Increasingly, wild animals are having a difficult time surviving in their natural homes. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct each year due to the voracious needs of animal agriculture. Today, diets rich in meat are the greatest threat to the diversity of our world’s flora and fauna and the ecosystems on which they depend.
1. Ocean produce around 70% of oxygen in the atmosphere. Almost all of the ocean’s oxygen is produced by plankton — algae, drifting plants and some bacteria — via photosynthesis. When large tracts of land are plowed, the exposed soil can erode during rainstorms. Much of this runoff flows to the sea, carrying with it agricultural fertilizers and pesticides. Eighty percent of pollution to the marine environment comes from the land. Overfishing is another contributor to the warming of the ocean.
2. Rainforests and trees produce about 28 percent of the world’s oxygen. More than 80% of the Amazonian rainforest is destroyed for raising beef.
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