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CENTO E UMA RAZÕES PARA
VIRAR VEGETARIANO



 Pessoas  Terra  Ar  Água  Eficiência  Animais  Saúde



     PESSOAS


  1. Todo ano no RU alimentamos nosso gado com comida suficiente para alimentar 250.000.000 pessoas enquanto no mundo 30.000.000 pessoas morrem de fome
  2. 20 vegetarianos podem viver à custa da terra exigida por um comedor de carne 
  3. A cada 3 segundos uma criança morre de fome em algum lugar no mundo
  4. Se os americanos reduzirem seu consumo de carne em 10% resgataria 12.000.000 toneladas de grão - suficiente para alimentar 60.000.000 pessoas (a população da Grã Bretanha)
  5. Se todos americanos tornarem vegetarianos, isso resgataria grão suficiente para alimentar 600.000.000 pessoas (a população da Índia)
  6. Intensificação na criação animal deslocou 1.000.000 de pessoas de suas terras tradicionais - por exemplo, o povo indígena na américa do sul e central, americanos nativos na américa do norte & arrendatários na Grã Bretanha - isso está continuando hoje
  7. Pessoas deslocadas de suas terras para as cidades se sujeitam a deficiência dietética, doenças, doenças de parasitas & acomodatício 
  8. Nos países do terceiro mundo 1 em 10 bebês morrem antes do seu nascimento
  9. O RU importa ?46.000.000 no valor de grão dos países do terceiro mundo para alimentar nossos gado
  10. Devido a destruição de vastas áreas de pasto 850.000.000 pessoas vivem na terra ameçada pela desertificação & mais de 230.000.000 já vivem na terra tão severamente deserfiticada que eles são incapazes de sustentar sua existência e encarar a iminente fome
  11. 1.000.000.000 de pessoas no oeste se empanturrarram na carne & laticínios deixaram 1.000.000.000 a dissipar e 3.500.000.000 balançando a bordo


     TERRA


  12. Se eles continuarem a limpar as florestas americanas para criar gado na taxa presente, em 50 anos não haverá nada deixado
  13. 1 acre rende165 lbs de carne bovina ou 20.000 lbs de batatas 
  14. 8/10 da terra cultivada no RU é usado para cultivar alimento para animais (14.732.000 hectares)
  15. Isso toma 16lbs de alta proteína de soja para produzir 1 lb de carne bovina. 
  16. Desde 1945 no RU temos perdido 95% das campinas de flores, 50% das antigas florestas, 40% de pastos, 50% de pântanos & 224,000 km de cercas vivas tudo devido ao criação de animais 
  17. Pressão na terra devido a criação de carne conduz a erosão do solo de 6 bilhões de toenaldas/ano nos EUA 
  18. Se todos virarem vegetarianos até 90% da terra usada para cirção de animal poderia ser retirada da produção e usada para replantar florestas, atividades de lazer, etc.
  19. 25% das florestas da América Central foram destruídas para pastoreio de gado desde 1960
  20. Entre 1966-1983 38% da floresta tropical da Amazônia fui destruído para pastoreio de gado 
  21. 90% das fazendas de gado estabelecidas na clareadas terras da floresta vão a falência em menos de 8 anos conforme a terra torna árida devido a perda de nutrientes e pastoreio excessivo
  22. Excessivo pastoreio de gado está destruindo a terra e aumentando a desertificação, quase 430 milhões de acres só nos EUA sofreram uma redução de 25-50% na produção desde o primeiro pastoreio
  23. Uma polegada de crosta terrestre leva 200-1000 anos para desenvolver - mas nos EUA eles perderam cerca de 1/3 da sua principal crosta terrestre em 200 anos(cerca de 7 polegadas) devido a fazenda de animal 
  24. Terra será perdido devido ao aumento do nível do mar devido ao aquecimento global devido a fazenda de animal

     AR


  25. A destruição da floresta pelos lavradores de gado está destruindo os pulmões do planeta e reduzindo a capacidade do mundo em repor nosso fornecimento de oxigênio 
  26. Os 1.300.000.000 de gados no mundo emitem 60.000.000 toneladas de metano por ano (metano é um gás do efeito estufa e conduz ao aquecimento global)
  27. Queima de florestas, pastos e & gastos agrícolas associados com fazenda de animal libera 50-100.000.000 toneladas de metano por ano
  28. Combinando esses números, 25% das emissões de metano são devido a fazenda de animal (não incluindo os bilhões de carneiros, porcos e galinhas então o número real é muito maior)
  29. Fertilizante utilizado para cultivar colheita para alimentar os animais libera óxido nitroso  - responsabiliza por 6% do efeito do gás do efeito estufa
  30. Fertilizante, herbicida e pesticidas pulverizados nas colheitas entram na atmosfera criando um nocivo coquetel carcinogênico
  31. CFCs são liberados para o ar a partir dos mecanismos de refrigeração usados para armazenar peixe (carne) em decomposição, leite e manteiga - CFCs estão destruindo a camada de ozônio 
  32. Amônia da urina do animal também poluem a atmosfera
  33. CO2 é liberado pela queima de óleo e petróleo nos caminhões, navios, matadouros, fábrica de laticínios, fábricas etc. associados com a produção de carne e laticínios
  34. Emissões das grandes fábricas químicas que produzem fertilizante, herbicida e outros elementos químicos agrícolas também estão envenenando nosso ar 

     ÁGUA


  35. 25 galões de água para produzir 1lb de trigi e 2500 galões para produzir 1lb de carne
  36. Fazenda de animal do RU produz 200.000.000 toneladas de of slurry (liquid excrement) every year, the majority of which ends up in our rivers
  37. Bloody waste water from abattoirs ends up in our rivers
  38. In the USA every second humans produce 12,000 lbs of effluent while farmed animals produce 250,000 lbs
  39. Nitrates & pesticides used on crops grown to feed livestock end up in our rivers
  40. Meat & dairy farming uses 70 litres of water per day per animal in the UK or 159,250,000,000 litres per year in total
  41. The water used to produce 10 lbs of steak is equivalent to the average consumption of water for an entire household for an entire year
  42. Depletion of groundwater reserves to grow crops for animals & to supply abattoirs will lead to greater water shortages
  43. Aquafers (stores of underground water) in the San Joaquin valley in the USA are being drained at the rate of 500,000,000,000 gallons/year to produce meat
  44. 18% of all agricultural land in the world is irrigated & as global warming increases (partly due to animal farming) it will cost $200,000,000 to keep these systems going
  45. The water used to produce a 1000 lb beef steer is enough to float a Destroyer battleship
  46. The liquid waste from the various parts of the meat & dairy industry flow into the rivers & from there into the seas polluting them & encouraging huge algal blooms to grow

     EFFICIENCY


  47. To produce 1calorie of energy from meat takes 60 calories of petrol, whereas growing grains & legumes to directly feed people produces 20 calories for each calorie of fuel used ( thats 1200 times more efficient)
  48. Meat & dairy farming uses billions of gallons of oil to run tractors, fuel ships & lorries (to move animal feed & animals), pump billions of gallons of water to irrigate fields & run slaughterhouses, power refrigeration units to prevent the corpses from decomposing & to power sewage plants to clean up some of the pollution produced
  49. Cattle convert only 6% of their energy intake (mainly grains & soya) into flesh, the remaining 94% is wasted as heat, movement (which is why they keep many animals in very close confinement), hair, bones, faeces etc
  50. 1lb of beef takes 1 gallon of petrol to produce
  51. A family of four eating beef for a year uses enough petrol to run a car for 6 months (obviously depending on how far you drive!)
  52. If the full ecological cost of meat was passed onto the consumer - the price would be quadrupled (at least)
  53. The EC spends ?100,000,000's to subsidise animal production resulting in lakes of unwanted milk & mountains of unwanted meat & butter. This money could be better spent encouraging organic fruit, vegetable & grain production
  54. In the USA in 1979 145,000,000 tons of crops were fed to cattle resulting in only 21million tons of animal bodies - the cost of the wasted crops was $20,000,000,000
  55. Between 1950 & 1985 grain production in Europe & the USA increased massively but 2/3 was fed to animals
  56. 70% of all grain is fed to animals
  57. Eating vast quantities of animal flesh, eggs, milk & butter is a luxury that most of the planet can not afford

     ANIMALS


  58. Fishing with drift (and other modern) nets weakens & destroys ecosystems by indiscriminately killing billions of sea creatures & disrupting the sea bed
  59. Fishermen's nets kill 10 times as many other animals as the fish they are hoping to catch
  60. Fish caught in nets die an agonising slow death of suffocation
  61. Each year 15,000,000,000 land animals are slaughtered for food & an unknown but much larger number of sea creatures (including 1000's of dolphins caught accidentally)
  62. Chickens are crammed into battery cages with upto 3 other birds, they are unable to even spread their wings & many can not even stand up
  63. Unwanted male chicks (because they can't lay eggs) are gassed or pulped while their sisters go to the battery sheds
  64. Chicks are debeaked without anaesthetic to prevent them injuring each other in the unnaturally confined conditions they are kept in - this is equivalent to having your fingernails pulled out without anaesthetic
  65. Modern farming methods using growth hormones & artificial lighting mean that many chickens out grow their bones, resulting in fractured & broken legs
  66. Sows are kept tethered in stalls 1.3 x 1 metre on concrete or slatted floors - they can not even turn around
  67. Poultry raised for meat are kept in windowless broiler sheds, with around 20-30,000 in each shed, they live in an area of 10-20 cm square - fighting due to overcrowding is common & like battery hens they commonly suffer from supperating bed sores
  68. Broilersheds are artificially lit 23 hours a day to produce rapid growth
  69. Animals travel between farms & to slaughter in overcrowded transporters with no food or water - resulting in stress, injuries & deaths - legal requirements are widely ignored
  70. 95% of poultry suffer injuries before being killed & 30% suffer broken bones
  71. Problems with stunning practices mean that many animals have their throats slit while still conscious (around 6% of cattle or 200,000 per year) & are then dipped in tanks of scalding water (to loosen feathers, bristles etc.) again while fully conscious
  72. 4000 animals die spurting their blood out every minute in a British slaughterhouse
  73. Calf leather comes from animals killed at just 2 weeks old
  74. Cows were fed on the ground up remains of other cows & sheep - the result is thought to be BSE (mad cow disease) in the USA cattle are fed partly on recycled plastic pellets
  75. Cows only give milk for 10 months after they have a calf - so they are routinely artificially inseminated (ie. mechanically raped) to keep them pregnant & milking - their calves are taken away (usually at 12 hours old) for meat or export to veal crates
  76. Cows would naturally live upto 20 years but are slaughtered after 5-7 years when their milk production begins to fall
  77. In the UK animals are killed by first being stunned with electricity or a captive bolt gun (ie. a bolt is fired into their heads) before having their throats slit & being plunged into boiling water - all this happens on a production line with the animals being hung upside down from a moving conveyor belt - this is factory farming
  78. "Animals are those unfortunate slaves & victims of the most brutal part of mankind" - John Stewart Mill (philosopher)
  79. Veal calves are confined in stalls in the dark, unable to move & are fed on pigs blood , chocolate & dried milk (we are drinking the rich fresh milk of their mothers)
  80. Cows naturally produce 5 litres of milk per day for their calves - under the intensified systems of modern farming they produce 25-40 litres per day - resulting in swollen & inflamed udders - at this rate they are soon worn out
  81. Large areas of land are under monoculture to grow crops to feed to animals - these areas are wildlife deserts supporting fewer & fewer species.

     HEALTH


  82. Vegetarians have a 20% lower rate of mortality from all causes (ie. they live longer & don't get sick as often)
  83. Meat is full of traces of antibiotics, hormones, toxins produced by stress & pesticide residues that become concentrated from all the crops they have eaten
  84. Fish contain heavy metals & other pollutants -many of which originated on farms
  85. The world health organisation recommends a diet low in saturated fat, sugar, salt & with plenty of fibre - exactly what you get on a vegan/vegetarian diet
  86. Farmed animals contain upto 50% saturated fat in their bodies
  87. Vegetarians have 24% reduced risk of getting heart disease & Vegans a 57% reduction (heart disease is the biggest killer in the UK accounting for 50% of deaths)
  88. Obesity is rare in vegetarians, obesity is related to many diseases
  89. Vegans & vegetarians have lower blood pressure & cholesterol levels - high levels are associated with heart disease, strokes & kidney failure
  90. Vegetarians have a 50% reduced risk of dying of diabetes
  91. Vegetarians have a 40% reduced level of cancer than the general population thought to be because they have a higher intake of vitamins A,C & E
  92. Vegetarians have a reduced risk of developing gall & kidney stones
  93. 80% of food poisoning is due to infected meat (faeces, bacteria etc.) after all meat is decomposing flesh - most of the rest is due to salmonella in eggs
  94. Osteoporosis due to calcium loss from bones is mainly due to the sulphur content in meat & casein protein in milk that cause calcium to be lost in the urine - the countries with the highest meat & dairy consumption are those with the highest levels of brittle bones
  95. 50% of people do not have the enzyme to digest milk properly & milk allergy is related to asthma & eczema
  96. Meat eaters have double the rate of Alzheimers disease as Vegans & Vegetarians - some people also think that Parkinsons disease is also linked to meat eating
  97. Egg yolk is a dense concentration of saturated fat & the white is high in albumin protein associated with leaching calcium into your urine. Butter is 80% saturated fat, cream is 40% saturated fat & cheese is 25-40% saturated fat
  98. Meat eaters are two and a half times more likely to get bowel cancer than Vegetarians
  99. The cling film used to wrap meat in supermarkets & butchers contains chemicals linked to falling sperm counts in men
  100. Chinese people (living mainly on a vegetarian diet) consume 20% more calories than Americans but Americans are 20% fatter
  101. Of 2,100,000 deaths in the USA in 1987, 1,500,000 were related to diet (ie. meat & dairy)



AND I COULD GO ON !


If you've read this far, I hope that you are beginning to see that the Meat & Dairy industry is a major contributor to misery on this planet. It is destroying the health of people in rich countries, starving those in poor countries, it is torturing & killing billions of animals every year and in the meantime it is one of the major factors in the destruction of the environment - so what does the meat & dairy industry have to say in it's defence?

Well their only real point is usually "Meat is tasty" - fair enough a lot of people enjoy the taste of meat - but there are plenty of delicious alternatives (just consider the huge range of vegetarian dishes in Indian cooking - one of the oldest & most sophisticated cuisines in the world) and if you really crave meat & dairy, nowadays there are plenty of healthy non animal alternatives - just look in the supermarket & health food shop. So I hope you will agree it's pretty pathetic to consider all the evidence & then say "well I know you're right about the environment & health & the animals - but I just love my meat"







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