Avoid Eat Meat

If you are reading this, you probably already know many reasons for avoiding meat. Here we will give you just a small number of the facts behind it.

90% of oats, 85% of corn, and 80% of soybeans grown in the U.S. alone are fed to livestock. If everyone consumed plant foods instead of innocent animal beings there would be enough food to feed the entire world several times over.

The world already has a shortage of fresh water, and animal production plays a large part. In the U.S., for example, meat production consumes over half the water used. 2500 gallons (9500 litres) of water are used to produce 1 pound (454 grammes) of meat, where only 25 gallons of water are needed to produce 1 pound of wheat. For every person who follows a vegan path, they have saved 2800-3700 gallons of water each day.

Loss of topsoil is another major problem our civilization is facing. In the U.S. (a country with more laws and controls than most others), 75% of its topsoil has been lost and 85% of this loss is becasue of animal agriculture industries.

Every 5 seconds an acre of the precious South American rainforest is cleared to create cropland for the production of meat and dairy. In the U.S. alone, 260 million acres (105 million hectares) of forests have been destroyed. For every year that a person follows a vegan path, they have saved an acre (0.4 hectares) of trees.

33% of all raw materials (the basic products of farming, forestry, and mining, including fossil fuels) consumed by the U.S. are devoted to the production of livestock. It takes 11 times as much energy to produce meat and other fatty foods than to produce grains.

It is now common for farmers to use confinement stalls to raise their pigs. These small cages are barely big enough for their massive bodies which grow rapidly due to all the hormones they are injected with. Pigs are highly intelligent - more than dogs - so their treatment is especially sad.

Sows are kept impregnated their entire lives. Most pens have a bar over the sow in order to keep her lying down so that her babies can easily feed. Once the piglets are large enough to eat the 'food' the farmers feed them, they are taken away from their mother. Then she is impregnated again...