Meat-Centered Diets Are Destroying The Earth’s Ecosystem
Excerpt From Alkaline Plant Based Diet Book
Not only are meat-centered diets destroying the health of animals and humans, they are supporting the destruction of the earth’s ecosystem.
Increased meat production is directly responsible for the overuse of natural resources to run factory-farming operations. Increased meat production is also responsible for the loss of millions of acres of tropical forest due to deforestation.
Deforestation is needed to provide land for grazing animals and to clear land to plant crops to feed factory-farmed animals. It takes a tremendous amount of fresh water to grow the staggering amount of grain needed to feed factory-farmed animals.
This over taxes the natural water supply and contributes to drought. The whole cycle contributes greatly to the amount of manufactured greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere that contribute to intensified climate change.
Animals consume the majority of grain crops produced in the United States, not people. Seventy percent of US grain production is used to feed to livestock. We still wouldn’t need to produce this much grain for human consumption if we all stopped consuming meat and only ate a plant-based diet.
The number of crops needed to feed livestock grows quickly because the production of livestock keeps increasing. “The world’s total meat supply was 71 million tons in 1961. In 2007, it was estimated to be 284 million tons. Per capita consumption has more than doubled over that period…
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