*This is part of an article by Moby ~ This Is Your Planet on Meat Animal agriculture: Uses tons of grain that could be fed directly to people Uses tons of fresh water that could be used to grow healthy food Creates tons of urine and feces that ruin our lakes, rivers and drinking water Creates about 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions Contributes to obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer Causes epidemic zoonotic diseases Contributes to the creation of antibiotic resistant super bugs And is heavily subsidized by our tax dollars. As a species, we are faced with complicated and seemingly intractable problems. And then were faced with animal agriculture. So rather than focus on the hard, intractable problems (like curing baldness) lets simply focus on something easy with phenomenal benefit: ending animal agriculture. All we have to do is stop subsidizing it and stop buying animal products. Simple. And climate change gases are reduced by about 18 percent. Famine could end. Fresh water could become clean and more abundant. Deaths from cancer and heart disease and diabetes and obesity could be reduced. And zoonotic diseases could be largely reduced. It really is that simple. Weve done hard things in the past. Weve ended slavery. Weve given everyone the right to vote. Weve passed legislation prohibiting children from working in factories. Were even moving towards a time when cigarette smoking will be seen as a foul, distant memory. We can do this. We have to. Our reliance on animal agriculture is literally killing us and ruining our climate and our planet. Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. -Albert Einstein
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 20:54:24 +0000