1. Every second, our nation's (=USA) factory farms produce 89,000 pounds of waste.
2. Every day, the 1.5 billion cows on the planet produce 150 billion gallons of methane.
3. Every year, animal agriculture wastes over HALF the country's freshwater supply.
4. Every six seconds, an acre of rainforest is cut down for cattle farming.
5. Livestock or their feed occupies one-third of the Earth's ice-free land.
6. Over 56 billion animals are killed for food every year—and that's not even counting sea animals.
7. Animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution, and habitat destruction.
If you're already vegan, you can celebrate Earth Day by sharing these facts with others. If you're not yet, you can celebrate by saving 1,100 gallons of water, 45 pounds of grain, 30 square feet of forested land, 20 pounds of CO2 equivalent, and one animal's life today. How? Just by eating vegan! Those are just some of the effects that being vegan has every day.
Every day, all the humans in the world drink 5.2 billion gallons of water. Cows drink 45 billion gallons. Get's worse: Humans eat 21 billion pounds of food each day, and cows eat 135 billion pounds.
Think of how much our species could reduce its environmental footprint—and think all of the starving humans we could feed (350 million in the U.S. alone)—if we stopped eating animals and went vegan. Now, stop thinking about it and do it. 😉
Happy Earth Day to you and yours!
(Quelle: PETA2)
P.S.: Heute im Hagebaumarkt gesehen: Zwei wahnsinnig witzige Schilder: "Kann man das essen oder ist das vegan?" und "Vegetarier sind grausam: Ein Schwein kann ja weglaufen, aber so ein Salat..."
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