run-yourheartout: eartheld: hippie-core:vitasempliche:acti-veg:mothelizard:living-consciousl
run-yourheartout: eartheld: hippie-core: vitasempliche: acti-veg: mothelizard: living-consciously: UN Says Veganism Can Save the World From Destruction Currently, agriculture, “particularly meat and dairy products,” account for 70 percent of the world’s freshwater consumption. It also accounts for 39 percent of the globe’s total land use and 19 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions. Importantly, as the population grows, the impact from agriculture will substantially grow as well, thanks to the increasing consumption of animal products. Please remember that there is not enough land for the world to go 100% vegan! For everyone to live only on plants, we would have to clear cut more forests than we already have EVEN IF we turned all the animal farms into plant farms! Also, this would cause another spike in monocrops which in not good for the earth! 100% veganism wouldn’t even be sustainable in America. What we need is a balance. Life is not about absolutes, it is about balance. Except none of that is true. Meat eaters require 160% more land for their diet than vegans do. On one acre of land you can produce can produce 50,000 pounds of tomatoes, up to 53,000 pounds of potatoes or 30,000 pounds of carrots. If the world went vegan we could comfortably feed everyone on the planet with a fraction of the land usage. As for monocrops, it is widely known that the only reason this ever became an issue is because crops like soy are in higher demand because the majority of crop production currently goes to feed farmed animals, not humans. The animal agriculture industry literally created this issue. It takes considerably less crops to feed a human than it does the darker animals your average meat eater will eat over their lifetime. This has nothing to do with “balance,” when animal agriculture is the number one contributor to human caused climate change, is the number one water user, number one cause of deforestation and habitat loss it is not sustainable to “balance” meat eating with anything. What’s more, there is no reason to. It is harmful to the humans, animals and to the planet. We don’t need it. People been saying this for a while now. YES + I wasn’t going to reblog this until I read @acti-veg response ❤️❤️ -- source link