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more edible, to mass-produce animals and to remove land animals and another 70 billion marine animals we
humans out of the natural food chain. It was no longer slaughter each year is causing the biggest ecological
necessary to gather or hunt (or get hunted), we could holocaust to the planet today; more than all the forms of
simply trade goods with others or, as is now more popular, transportation which emit Co2 on the planet combined.
purchase food nicely packaged at the store. The methane gas that is produced by land animals is ten
There are many pluses and minuses to the agricultural times more toxic than Co2. Yup ladies and gentlemen,
revolution but I will not get into all of them here. I do want the gastrointestinal gasses these animals burp and fart
to focus on some of the results that will help us answer are creating more global warming calamities than all the
our original question. As a side note, this article is not cars, boats, planes and trains on the planet combined.
directed toward people who still live in remote places The amount of natural resources that are used to produce
and who still gather and hunt for their survival, but rather animal products is mindboggling. One might think that
to people who live in a first world reality, where grocery consuming organic, grass fed animal products from
stores are a regular part of daily lives. small farms is the solution to this ever-growing disaster.
Sorry, but the opposite is true. As depicted in the great
As far as essential amino acids are concerned, since they documentary “Cowspiracy, the Sustainability Secret”
are readily available in plants, it is no longer necessary to (available on Netflix), grass fed animal products facilities
obtain them from animal flesh. Even if we do obtain them are even more disastrous to the environment. Just think
from animal flesh, it is through the second hand filtering about this for a minute. If we all stopped consuming
of these amino acids that were eaten as plant form by the factory farmed animal products
animals we eat. So now we can get these amino acids and instead started
directly from their plant source easily and abundantly from consuming from small
any supermarket. family farms, we would
It is also a known fact that the animal agriculture section need two planets in
of the revolution is a direct cause for much suffering order to sustain our
and destruction on the planet at this time. I will put consumption. Does
the ethical question of whether it is right or wrong anyone have a spare
to kill other sentient beings out of habit, comfort and planet to share? What
convenience as opposed to necessity aside. I do want to more, the more people
focus on the environmental and health aspect of these consume from these
continued practices. The production of the 70 billion small farms, the bigger
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