Animal Products are the bread of our Affliction - Environmental Damage

Factory farming and consumption of animals/animal products are the #1 cause of destruction of the environment and climate change!

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  • Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, more than all transportation combined. 
  • Livestock and their byproducts account for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Methane is 25-100 times more destructive than CO2.  Methane has a global warming power 86 times that of CO2.
  • Livestock is responsible for 65% of all emissions of nitrous oxide – a greenhouse gas 296x more destructive than carbon dioxide and which stays in the atmosphere for 150 years.
  • Fracking (hydraulic fracturing) water use ranges from 70-140 billion gallons annually.  Animal agriculture use ranges from 34-76 trillion gallons of water annually. 

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