I had a discussion with someone recently about how considering yourself an environmentalist while being a meat eater is a bit of an oxymoron. Its a discussion I end up having every Earth Day or Arbor Day, its just kind of inevitable. I dont think that most vegans or vegetarians are consciously better environmentalists, I just think most people arent aware just how badly meat farming destroys our environment. We would drastically reduce green house emissions, save millions of gallons of water, preserve acres upon acres of rainforest housing endangered species of plants and animals, and our super bugs wouldnt be so super as the antibiotics in meat animals leads to fast development of resistance. Even if my friends cut their meat consumption down to once a week they would be doing far more for the environment than they can imagine. Anyway, a discussion tonight reminded me that someone out there might find it interesting to read about, so I just dug up this short list real quick. Feel free to research it more in depth if you wish, Im not submitting this site as empirical evidence, the information has been available longer than the Internet has been public. https://downtoearth.org/go-veggie/environment/top-10-reasons
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 05:49:12 +0000