In 2012 a report released by the Stockholm International Water Institute stated that; “With 70% of all available water being in agriculture, growing more food to feed an additional 2 billion people by 2050 will place greater pressure on available water and land.” The report also said: “Nine hundred million people already go hungry and 2 billion people are malnourished in spite of the fact that per capita food production continues to increase.” 82 percent of the worlds starving children live in countries where food is fed to animals, which are then killed and eaten by more well-off individuals in developed countries like the U.S., U.K., and in Europe. One-fourth of all grain produced by third-world countries is now given to livestock, in their own country and out. an inexcusable 77 percent of all coarse grain produced in the world is now consumed by animals in the meat, dairy, and fishing industries—not by humans (corn/maize, barley, sorghum, rye, oats, millet). tens of millions of acres of virgin rainforest are cleared worldwide each year to support the demand for animal-based consumption. It takes up to 13 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of meat, and even fish on fish farms must be fed up to 5 pounds of wild-caught fish to produce 1 pound of farmed fish flesh. Eating animal-based foods is the worst form of human and animal abuse. Animal agriculture is not only evil to the animals that it imprisons, enslaves, tortures, and kills; it is monumentally evil when we consider the harm it wreaks on the natural environment of the planet and eco-systems, the health of individual persons, its devastating impact on health-care systems all over the world, and finally, its exacerbating effects on world famine and hunger. Consumption of animal products does not merely use resources, it depletes them. It’s terribly inefficient and it may require 100 to 400 times the amount of water to produce a pound of meat as it would for a pound of a much higher nutritional value of plant-based foods. Raising animals for food requires so much water that you could leave your shower on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and not waste even a tiny proportion of water than someone consuming meat, dairy and eggs. A whole years worth of showers takes up to around 5,000 gallons, but it requires well over 2,500 gallons of freshwater to produce just a single pound of beef. It takes up to about 300 gallons of water per day to produce food for a vegan, and more than 4,000 gallons of water per day to produce food for an animal-eater. A vegan needs 0.5 acres of land for sustenance, a non-vegetarian 30 times this amount! One acre of land can yield 30,000 pounds of carrots, 40,000 pounds of potatoes or 50,000 pounds of tomatoes. However, one acre of land can yield only 250 pounds of meat. The land used to grow crops to feed livestock is several times what is needed to grow crops for human consumption and even more land is required for grazing. Face this fact: Even if 100% of all the land on the six inhabited continents were used for agriculture (including the Sahara desert, Greenland, etc.), and even if that land were as productive as U. S. agricultural land, there would still not be enough land to feed the world population if our diet continues to comprise of animal products. There is not the slightest possibility that the rest of the world will ever be brought up to the United States’ destructive standard diet; the resources simply aren’t there. even maintaining a small minority of the world’s citizens on the typical U.S diet will not be possible for very much longer. If resources are not conserved, everyone in the long run may be equal but starve. And in fact, what promotes social injustice in the first place? Owners of large tracts of land who are using that land to promote livestock and animal-based consumption for the elite. Regardless of social system, any country — rich or poor — that emphasizes or maintains animal-based food production is making its food situation, and that of the world, substantially worse. 2.7 Billion people live in areas that suffer severe water shortages for at least one month of the year. We are consuming 50% more natural resources globally than our planet can sustainably produce. (UNs Food and Agriculture Organisation:9 May 2012 WWF Living Report). Two out of every three people on the globe may be living in water-stressed conditions by the year 2025, if present global consumption patterns continue. (World Health Organisation). According to the research assessment Livestock and Climate Change published by Worldwatch institute, livestock accounts for 51% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emittions, more than all the transport(13%) in the world and any other contributing factor combined. It is the #1 contributor to human caused climate change. https://youtube/watch?v=3i3GRXW9tZc
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