We can save environment (nature) by following vegetarianism. Non-vegetarian is the food of some animals and they cannot eat vegetarian and survives only on meat of other animals. If we consume or do waste more meat by killing rabbits, deers, birds and other forest animals, we are creating shortage of meat to the meat eating animals. If you care about the environment, please live as vegetarian.
The choice to become a vegetarian is a wise decision you can make to impact your personal health and the health of the mother earth. If somebody arguments against being a vegetarian, it is due to economic and political interests of them who profit from the sales of meat. If you are convinced you to be a vegetarian you can convince others easily. If you are already became vegetarian, due to high cost of meat is enough to make anyone feel uncomfortable being a non-vegetarian. You can tell about the unclean, inhumane, and utterly repulsive treatment of millions of helpless animals each year and contamination and dwindling water supplies. You can talk about our population suffering from diseases of excess (such as weight, heart disease, cancer and diabetes).
If we wish to be happier, healthier and to contribute to the overall well-being of animals, humanity, and the planet we live on, change is necessary. Our lives will actually start to change for the better when we experience this new awareness. By realizing and accepting the consequences of our choices we can begin to solve many of the problems we face in the world today.
A real environmentalist does not eat meat. Rather, they understand that raising animals for food will make hell on the Earth by polluting and depleting our land, water, and air and they want no part of it. There’s a lot of talk about curbing global warming by reducing carbon emissions. But surprising very few people is presenting the fact that vegetarian diet would have a huge impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, on the basis of carbon emissions, adopting a vegetarian diet actually does reduce emissions than driving a hybrid car. That is because every single stage of meat production involves heavy pollution, massive releases of greenhouse gases, and massive amounts of energy.
Would you clear 55 square feet of rainforest just to eat a hamburger? That is about what it takes if you are consuming meat imported from South America. An area of rainforest the size of seven football fields is destroyed every minute to make room for grazing cattle. When rainforests are destroyed, so is a rich variety of plant life and entire species of wildlife. And it’s not just the rainforests that are vanishing, more than 260 million acres of forest have been clear-cut just for animal agriculture. By choosing to be a vegetarian, you alone would save one acre of trees every year.
Nearly half of all the water used in the United States goes to raising animals for food. A vegetarian diet requires only little water per day, while a meat-eating diet requires more water per day. In other words, for every pound of meat you spare, you are saving more water than you would by not showering at all for almost an entire year. There is a saying, “The Earth is able to provide for everyone’s needs, but not everyone’s greed.” The problem with the growing worldwide demand for meat is that there are not enough resources to allow everyone in the world to eat meat. It takes up to 16 kilograms of grain fed to the animals to produce just 1 kilogram of meat.
To support their meat habit, industrialized countries export huge amounts of grain to developing countries, which in turn use it to produce meat, which is then exported back to those industrialized countries. Because of this trend, the much more efficient plant-based agricultural model that was once the norm in developing countries is being replaced by intensive livestock rearing – and less food being grown for the people of those countries.
If everyone on Earth received 25 percent of his or her calories from animal products, only 3.2 billion people could be nourished. If everyone ate a vegetarian diet, there would be more than enough food to nourish the world’s entire population—more than 6.3 billion people.
An acre of land used to raise cattle meant for slaughter, produces about 200 kilograms of meat. If pulses were grown on that same acre, more than 17 times the amount of grain could be produced. If we added up all the land on Earth that is suitable for farming and divided it equally among the entire population, each person would get about 2/3 of an acre. To feed a vegetarian, it only takes about 1/6 of an acre of land, but to feed a meat-eater, it takes nearly 3 and 1/4 acres of land. See the huge difference.
I do not expect everyone in the world to become a vegetarian (even though it is a nice thought), but even if a small percentage switched to a plant-based diet it would result in saving land and water resources to help the population of the world to live in a much more sustainable manner.
Be a veggie. Save planet. Save animals. Be healthy & happy!!
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