Natural and Sustainable

“If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat….it’s staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot; ecology, famine, cruelty.” - Sir Paul McCartney

Eating meat effects not only the animals welfare, but also the environment. Were humans ever supposed to eat meat in the beginning. In the days of the cave men and even when Indians first inhabited the Americas, what if they never eat or used animals for food or for clothing. What if they stuck to the vegetables and the cotton, etc. for survival, how would our current world look today? Here are some ways that eating meat effect the world as a whole.

• Global Warming: According to the recent United Nations report, the meat industry causes more global warming (through emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide) than all the cars, trucks, SUVs, planes and ships in the world combines. Researchers at the University of Chicago determined that switching to a vegan diet is 50 percent more effective than switching from a regular car to a hybrid in reducing your impact on global warming.

• Water Resources: More than half of all the water consumed in the U.S. is used to raise animals for food. A totally vegetarian diet requires 300 gallons of water per day, while a meat-based diet requires more than 4,000 gallons of water per day.

• Pollution: Farmed animals produce about 130 times as much excrement as the entire human population of the United States. According to the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA), the run-off from factory farms pollutes our rivers and lakes more than all other industrial sources combines. Raising animals for food is one of the top tow or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to globally world wide.
(Source: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)

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It’s cause for thought, definately….Wouldn’t you agree?

*Natural and Sustainable Living Tip: Stand behind what you believe and stand strong. Nobody else-not your friends, your soul mate, your parents, or even the people who annoy you most, can change your inner sate more than temporarily.