Eating Meat Is Poisoning the Earth

Eating Meat Is Poisoning the Earth

Eating Meat Is Poisoning the Earth

Eating Meat Is Poisoning the Earth

Eating Meat Is Poisoning the Earth. Industrial-scale agriculture currently dominates the western livestock and poultry industries, and one farm will currently generate the maximum amount waste as a town. A cow excretes around 40kg of manure for each kilogram of edible beef it puts on and once you have several thousands crowded into alittle space the impact is dramatic. Their manure and urine is funnelled into huge waste lagoons typically holding as several as 40m gallons. These cesspools usually break, leak or overflow, polluting underground water provides and rivers with nitrogen, phosphorus and nitrates.


Tens of thousands of miles of rivers within the US, Europe and Asia are polluted every year. one spill of voluminous gallons of waste from a North Carolina pig factory lagoon in 1995 killed concerning ten million fish and compelled the closure of 364,000 acres of coastal wetlands to shellfishing.

The sheer amount of animals currently being raised for humans to eat currently threatens the earth's biodiversity. quite one third of the world's 825 "ecoregions" identified by conservation cluster WWF are said to be threatened by livestock and large US cluster Conservation International reckons that twenty three out of 40-odd international "biodiversity hotspots" – the places thought of Most worthy for all times – are currently seriously littered with livestock production.