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Coventina

(29,950 posts) Sat Mar 30, 2019, 12:48 AM Mar 2019

Food for thought [View all]

The meat industry causes more global warming (carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide) than all the cars, trucks, SUVs, planes, and ships combined in the world. (UN)

Production of a meat-based diet requires more than ten times the water required for a totally vegetarian diet.

Farmed animals in the US produce 130 times as much excrement as our human population.

The runoff from factory farms pollutes our rivers and lakes more than all other industrial sources combined. (EPA).

Friends, not food.

Namaste.

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Food for thought [View all] Coventina Mar 2019 OP

thanks for providing solutions nt msongs Mar 2019 #1

The solution was there if you read - vegetarianism. Joe941 Mar 2019 #6

kick for morning crowd Coventina Mar 2019 #2

What's the source on the amount of water required for a meat-based diet vs a vegetarian diet? WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2019 #3

link Coventina Mar 2019 #4

Okay, so that link does acknowledge that when it comes to beef, there's a wide range of WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2019 #5

True and thanks. Sadly they, inconvenienced on the left, don't care flvegan Mar 2019 #7

Easier to brag about their new Tesla Codeine Mar 2019 #8

Well, we can't possibly inconvenience them flvegan Mar 2019 #10

selfishness is difficult to overcome Coventina Mar 2019 #9

No thanks. Socal31 Mar 2019 #11