reply posted on 29-12-2008 @ 04:22 PM by Anonymous ATS
I also want to suggest boycotting the livestock industry, I may have the numbers a bit off but: cows only produce about 10% of the food they are fed,
and the US directs more than 70% of all its agriculture production towards feeding that livestock, so just think about how much more food there would
be if we didn't use it to produce meat. Now add to this the environmental hazard the meat industry is producing more greenhouse emision gasses than
transportation! that's right you could help global warming more by not eating meat than by not driving a car, I think cars produce around 13% of the
gases while the livestock industry produces around 18% And if that isn't reason enough take into consideration the 86, 000 lb of manure produced per
minute within the US alone, which is left to decompose in large areas where due to the quantity of it the land cant process it correctly and it ends
up contaminating it.
Finally add to that the health benefits from not eating meat and the whole animal torture point and well, does the "taste" of it really justify the
whole thing?
