Animals & the Animals & the EnvironmentEnvironment

Zoe Masongsong Zoe Masongsong October 2, 2008 October 2, 2008

Animal-Product CompaniesAnimal-Product CompaniesDestroy the EnvironmentDestroy the Environment

“ “The way that we breed animals for The way that we breed animals for food is a food is a threat to the planetthreat to the planet. It . It pollutes our environment while pollutes our environment while consuming huge amounts of water, consuming huge amounts of water, grain, petroleum, pesticides and grain, petroleum, pesticides and drugs. The results are drugs. The results are disastrousdisastrous.”.”

Dr. David Brubaker,Dr. David Brubaker, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins University, Environmental News Network, 9/20/99University, Environmental News Network, 9/20/99

What Do Companies Do What Do Companies Do with Animal Waste?with Animal Waste?

“ “Millions of gallons Millions of gallons of liquefied feces and of liquefied feces and urine urine seeped into the seeped into the environmentenvironment from from collapsed, leaking or collapsed, leaking or overflowing storage overflowing storage lagoons [like the one lagoons [like the one shown above at a pig shown above at a pig factory farm], and factory farm], and flowed into rivers, flowed into rivers, streams, lakes, streams, lakes, wetlands and wetlands and groundwater.”groundwater.”

www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/environment.html

““By far the most important non-CO2 greenhouse By far the most important non-CO2 greenhouse gas is methane, and the number one source of gas is methane, and the number one source of methane worldwide is animal agriculture.”methane worldwide is animal agriculture.”

Environmental Protection Agency, 2004, http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/publications/ emissions

““Methane is responsible for nearly as much Methane is responsible for nearly as much global warming as all other non-CO2 global warming as all other non-CO2 greenhouse gases put together.”greenhouse gases put together.”

Hansen, James E. and Makiko Sato, “Trends of measured climate forcing agents”, Proceedings of the National Academyof Sciences, 2001, http://www.pnas.org/cgi/ content/full/98/26/14778

=Dr. David Pimentel, ecologist, 1997

http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Aug97/livestock.hrs.html

MEAT-EATER VEGETARIAN VEGAN

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Amount of Land Needed to Amount of Land Needed to Grow a Year’s Supply of Grow a Year’s Supply of FoodFood