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Originally posted by Schhh
When stanning goes wrong.  You're literally making things up but why am I even surprised since I've seen you doing the same thing in other threads. |
Are you being purposely dense, or... It is common sense how much pollution the meat industry contributes every year. Millions of factory farms all around the world being used to feed billions of people all rely on the same fossil fuels cars and our homes do. And it's not just air pollution, the antibiotics and hormones injected into the meat we eat often trickle down into the soil and get washed away into our water supply.
It's simply fact that the meat industry is worse. No one's getting cancer from fur. No one's getting high cholesterol or contracting diseases like E coli from fur. The meat industry affects each and every one of us whether we eat meat or not.
On the contrary, the only thing being affected by the fur industry are the animals being killed, which is a shame and I don't support, but it's simply fact that the fur industry is the lesser of two evils.
I shouldn't have to explain any of this to you considering the amount of articles and documentaries available online.
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Our meat consumption habits take a serious toll on the environment. According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), the production, processing and distribution of meat requires huge outlays of pesticides, fertilizer, fuel, feed and water while releasing greenhouse gases, manure and a range of toxic chemicals into our air and water.
Livestock are typically fed corn, soybean meal and other grains which have to first be grown using large amounts of fertilizer, fuel, pesticides, water and land. EWG estimates that growing livestock feed in the U.S. alone requires 167 million pounds of pesticides and 17 billion pounds of nitrogen fertilizer each year across some 149 million acres of cropland. The process generates copious amounts of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide, while the output of methane—another potent greenhouse gas—from cattle is estimated to generate some 20 percent of overall U.S. methane emissions.
Our meat consumption habits also cause other environmental problems. A 2009 study found that four-fifths of the deforestation across the Amazon rainforest could be linked to cattle ranching. And the water pollution from factory farms (also called concentrated animal feeding operations or CAFOs)—whereby pigs and other livestock are contained in tight quarters—can produce as much sewage waste as a small city, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Further, the widespread use of antibiotics to keep livestock healthy on those overcrowded CAFOs has led to the development of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria that threaten human health and the environment in their own right.
Eating too much meat is no good for our health, with overindulgence linked to increasing rates of heart disease, cancer and obesity.
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...d-environment/
So meat and the meat industry contribute to air and water pollution, disease, deforestation, dangerous and deadly bacteria growing resistant to our antibiotics, global warming, and more.
Just one article I found by simply using Google.
