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 The “carbon footprint” for New Zealand lamb eaten in Britain has been estimated as equivalent to 1.9kg of carbon dioxide, for each 100gm serving of lamb – 80 percent of that generated by farmers and their livestock on-farm. Just 3 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions came from processing, and 5 percent from transport, with the [...] The first Vegan Society was created in 1944 to counter the detestable, flexitarian tendencies of early animal rights activists. Founder Donald Watson called their namby-pamby lacto-vegetarianism “a halfway house between flesh-eating and a truly human, civilised diet!” Billy-Ray would never drink milk again! Source If you switch to vegetarianism, you can shrink your carbon footprint by up to 1.5 tons of carbon dioxide a year! Source Clint Eastwood, aka Dirty Harry and The Man with No Name, is vegan! Source The global livestock sector is growing faster than any other agricultural sub-sector. Source Traditionally, vegans do not eat honey. The very mention of honey and my new found veganism caused some animated debate at a restaurant the other day. So, this will be discussed and debated on this blog in the near future. Source  20 vegetarians can be fed from the same area of land as 1 meat based diet. We can feed the world, it just can’t be meat that we are feeding them. Source Soy milk has slightly more protein than cow’s milk.
Source: Your local supermarket! Approximately 70% of the deforested areas of the Amazon Rainforest are used for raising livestock. Source The population of the United States is: 270 million The number of people who could be fed by the grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock is: 1.3 billion Source |
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