planet on a plate
Even with climate change, livestock produce places the onus to act on us as individuals.
more global warming gases than all the
world’s different forms of transport combined. The inefficiency of livestock production is
starkly illustrated by the fact that 10 hectares
Other important benefits of changing your of land can provide enough meat to feed
diet are to end your part in the obscene only two people, maize to feed 10 people,
suffering that most farmed animals endure wheat and other grains for 24 people and
and to improve your chances of leading a enough soya to feed 61 people.
healthier, longer life.
The world has now run out of agricultural
Animal agriculture is grossly unsustainable land and the future growth of animal
and yet not only continues to help destroy agriculture is based on invading what few
the planet but is subsidised with public wildernesses remain and by the dangerous
money to do so. The agent of this destruction practice of temporarily increasing fodder
is increasingly factory farming, so intensive yields with ever-more poisonous pesticides
that it demands 70 per cent of the world’s and nitrogen fertilisers. It is insane.
agricultural land for grazing or to grow
fodder crops. About 400 different chemicals are used and
4.5 billion litres of pesticides are sprayed
The animal protein industry is the biggest onto UK land every year. They not only
and most powerful industry on earth and remain in foodstuffs but accumulate in the
exerts enormous influence over all soil and leach into waterways. Some are
governments. Its products are as much carcinogenic while others promote allergies,
commodities as motor cars or TVs and birth defects and various health problems.
essential components in the This terrifying situation is increasingly being
global political mirrored across the world.
philosophy of
constant The dominance of meat and
growth. This dairy cannot continue and by
the time governments are
moved to act to reduce
consumption it may be
too late, as this guide
will make clear.
You don’t have to
wait for them
though – you can
act today!
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