From Chris Hedges
"The animal agriculture industry causes suffering, death and
environmental degradation—to humans as well as animals—on a scale equaled only
by the arms industry and the fossil fuel industry. And by eating meat and dairy
products we aid and abet a system that is perhaps the primary cause of global
warming and is pumping toxins and poisons into our bodies and the rest of the
ecosystem.
Animal agriculture sends more greenhouse gas emissions into
the atmosphere than worldwide transportation. The waste and flatulence from
livestock are responsible for creating at least 32,000 million tons of carbon
dioxide per year, or 51 percent of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.
Livestock causes 65 percent of all emissions of anthropogenic nitrous oxide, a
greenhouse gas 296 times more destructive than carbon dioxide. Crops raised to
feed livestock consume 56 percent of the water used in the United States.
Seventy percent of the crops we grow in the U.S. are fed to animals. Eighty
percent of the world’s soy crop is fed to animals. It is a flagrant waste of
precious and diminishing resources. It takes 1,000 gallons of water to produce
one gallon of milk."
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