Lately, a number of people have been asking, “If you care about animals, then why are you eating all their food?” My reply to this is that as more people go vegan, this will mean that there will be more food available for animals to eat, and not less. This is due to the fact that animal agriculture is one of the leading causes of wildlife habitat destruction. Farm animals exist in such large numbers only because humans breed them for slaughter, in numbers proportional to consumer demand, and only a small fraction of the food that an animal eats is converted into food for human consumption. Therefore, growing crops to feed livestock inherently requires far more land and resources than does growing crops consumed directly by humans, to feed the same number of people. Much native wildlife habitat is destroyed to grow crops fed to livestock, and the amount by which this happens depends on the number of people eating meat and other animal products. Animal agriculture also destroys native wildlife habitat as the result of the runoff from the concentrated animal waste from the farms, and as the result of the greenhouse gas emissions leading to global warming. Animal agriculture emits more green house gasses than do all the cars and trucks on the planet combined. As more people go vegan, more wildlife habitat is saved, and more food is therefore available for the animals. ar.vegnews.org/nutrition_2.html
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 20:28:43 +0000
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