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The Truth behind MEAT

religion it is about caring for the environment, about loving yourself, your children and

Once you know the real cost of meat, would you still have the same appetite for it?

The real COST of

Meat eating

Our Forests

Rainforests are burned to make room for cattle grazing

Rainforests are vital to all lives on Earth, however… • 70 % of Amazon forests have been turned over to grazing land or to grow soybeans to feed to cattle and chicken.1 • An area of rainforest the size of 7 football fields is destroyed EVERY MINUTE to make room for grazing cattle.2 • 100 species become extinct every day due to tropical

Our Land • The Livestock sector occupies 30% of the land surface. surface 2 • 80% of the agricultural land in the US are used to raise animals for food4, only 7% are used for growing plant foods for humans.5 • In the same time span, the same amount of land can produce6:

Our Climate • Livestock generates 18% of greenhouse gas emissions, more than all forms of transportation combined (13.5%). It is the NUMBER ONE source of humancaused methane (37%), nitrous oxide (65%)2. Global warming causes rising sea levels, serious natural disasters, food shortage, etc. • 64% of ammonia emissions originate in livestock production2 and contribute to AIR, SOIL AND WATER POLLUTION,

Ammonia contributes significantly to acid rain, which can cause a mass killing to trees, aquatic animals, and has significant impacts on freshwaters, soils and human health.

Our Energy • Fruits, vegetables and grains require 95% less raw materials to produce and can provide a complete, nutritious diet7. • The same amounts of fuel can produce 1 hamburger or 27 soy burgers.8

Our Food • More than 70% of the cereal crop produced in developed countries is fed to animals raised for food.10 • At least 80% of the world’s soybean crop and more than 50% of all corn 10

Our Lives • 820 million hungry people in developing countries go to bed hungry every night.13 • Every 5 seconds a child dies of starvation. starvation 13 • In the U.S., food eaten by livestock could feed 1.3 billion people. people 14 In the UK, food for livestock can feed 250 million people.15

Our Water The agriculture sector use nearly 70% of world’s precious freshwater12, within which the heaviest water use is by the animals we raise for meat.5 To produce 1 pound of 23 gallons of lettuce 1 pound wheat 1 pound apples 1 pound chicken 1 pound pork 1 pound beef

of of of of of

it takes19

water 25 gallons of water 49 gallons of water 815 gallons of water 1,630 gallons of water 5,214 gallons of water

Our Environment

• Globally, livestock and poultry industry continually produce billions of tons of manure, which contain a considerable amount of nutrient (nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium), drug residues, heavy metals and pathogens.17 • Animal waste often seep from lagoons and spray fields into groundwater or accumulate in the

Our Animals • During the past 50 years, worldwide meat production has increased fivefold.1 • 56 billion land animals are slaughtered globally for human consumption per year, and it is expected to double by 2050.10 • In the U.S. alone, more than 9 billions chickens are raised for

Our Ocean Ecosystems

• 90% of large fish populations have been exterminated in the past 50 years.20 • Modern fishing method, such as “bottom trawling” is destroying our ocean floor and emptying our ocean. • THE WORLD WILL RUN OUT OF SEAFOOD BY 2048 if steep

Our Health • The meat, dairy products, fish, and eggs in the market today are loaded with bacteria, antibiotics, dioxins, hormones, and other toxins that can cause serious health problems in humans. • A meat-based diet is the main source of many diseases, such as heart disease, high blood pressure,

Our Conscience We, as loving and intelligent human beings, forget and ignore that whenever we eat a piece of meat, an lovable and sensitive being had

Alec Baldwin

Hollywood actor & awardwinning producer; environmentalist & animalright’s activist

“Every time we sit down to eat,

we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment.

Go Veg Be Green Save the Earth

Links recommended: recommended  Supreme Master Television The most loving, constructive and noble TV channel on Earth

http://www.suprememastertv.com/

 Go Veg.com A website with a lot of information on vegetarianism

http://www.goveg.com/index.aspx

 Vegetarian recipes Beautiful recipes with pictures

http://al.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/recipe/menu.h

Sources: 1. http://www.ciwf.org.uk/publications/reports/Global_benefits_summary.pdf\ 2. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20772&Cr=global&Cr1=environme nt 3. http://www.rainforestweb.org/Rainforest_Information/Species_Extinction/ 4. http://www.goveg.com/environment.asp 5. http://www.worldwatch.org/system/files/EP174A.pdf 6. http://www.vegetarismus.ch/video/vsuk_skripte.htm 7. Al Gore’s book An Inconvenient Truth 8. http://www.ciwf.org/publications/reports/The_Global_Benefits_of_Eating_Less_Meat.p df 9. http://wwcpd.org/2008/wasted-resources/ 10. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2367646 11. http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/78/3/660S#R30 12. http://www.climate.org/topics/water.html 13. http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-basics/hunger-facts-international.html   14. John Robbins, "Diet for a New America" 15. http://www.flex.com/~jai/articles/101.html 16. http://www.climate.org/topics/water.html 17. ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/a0701e/a0701e00.pdf 18. http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming_chickens.asp 19. http://www.suprememastertv.com/ 20. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0515_030515_fishdecline.html