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It is a Way of Life which is… …good for the Planet.
…good for the animals. …good for Your health.
Why veganism is not just an extreme diet?
Not eating a pound of meat is
saves more water than using less water while showering
for 6 monthes.
One person going vegan saves over
1,3 million
gallons of water per year.
It takes
1000 gallons of water
to produce just 1 gallon of milk!
Average daily water footprint of diet
Vegan 300 gallons Vegetarian 1 200 gallons Meat-eater 4 000 gallons
It takes less water to produce a year’s food
for a vegan than to produce a month’s food for a meat-eater.
„All beings tremble before violence.
All fear death, all love life.
See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt?
What harm can you do?”
Buddha
Sharks kill 12 people per year
People kill 11 417 sharks per hour.
Livestock produces
40 % more greenhouse emissons
than global transportation.
Americans produce 12 000 pounds of excrement per second,
while american farm animals produce
250 000.
The U.S. agribusiness slaughter
10 billion animals per year.
That’s 19 011 animals per minute, or 317 animals per second.
„If slaughterhouses had glass walls
everyone would be a vegetarian.”
Paul McCartney
Animal agriculture water consumption ranges
from 34-76 trillion gallons annually.
477 gallons of water
are required to produce
1lb. of eggs.
Almost 900 gallons of water
are needed for
1lb. of cheese.
„Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth
as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
Albert Einstein
1,000 gallons of water
are required to produce
1 gallon/liter of milk.
Livestock occupies
1/3 of the Earth’s ice-free land.
90 million tons of fish
are pulled from our oceans
each year.
For every 1 pound of fish caught, up to 5 pounds of unintended marine species
are caught and discarded as by-kill.
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat,
and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals
as they now look upon the murder of men.
Leonardo DaVinci
Animal agriculture
is responsible for
up to 91% of Amazon destruction.
Up to137 plant, animal and insect species
are lost every day
due to rainforest destruction.
Cows produce
150 billion gallons of methane
per day.
80% of antibiotic
sold in the US
is for livestock.
Worldwide
50% or more of grain
is fed to livestock.
„We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them –
exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport,
exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes,
exploiting animals in the name of food.”
Cesar Chavez
We are currently
growing enough food to feed
10 billion people.
Land required to feed 1 person for 1 year:
Vegan: 1/6th acre
Vegetarian: 3x as much as a vegan Meat Eater: 18x as much as a vegan
If I can live a
happy and healthy life
without hurting others, I do it.
Most of the facts are from www.cowspiracy.com