GO VEGAN, THERE ARE CHILDREN STARVING
When I was a
small child, my parents use to tell me, “Finish your plate. There are children
starving. “
I never
understood what that connection meant. What they should have been telling me
that would have made more sense is “Go vegan. There are children starving.”
There are
about 7 billion people on this planet. About 1 billion of those are food
deprived. They have to worry about where their next meal will come from and if there
will be a next meal. About 21,000 children die of starvation every day.
Currently
over 1/3 of the Earth’s land is being used to raise and feed livestock. Raising livestock causes 55% of land erosion.
80% of the corn grown is used to feed livestock. 80% of fish caught in the
ocean is used to feed livestock. 90% of the oats grown is used to feed
livestock. It takes about 3 acres of land to raise food for one omnivore, while
it only takes 1/6 acre of land to feed a vegan. An animal farmer will tell you
that he feeds his animals grass and that you can’t grow anything else on the
land, but that is false. First, very few cows are grass fed their whole lives.
Usually, even with grass-fed beef, they get grass the last few weeks of their
lives. Second, if grass grows on the land, other plants can too.
According to
the United Nations, it takes 16 pounds of food to make one pound of meat. One
acre of land can be used to make 20 pounds of useable meat protein, or it can
be used to make 356 pounds of plant protein.
Those 21,000
children that died of hunger today died because people still feel they need to
eat meat. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can feed the world. The solution
is so simple. Just go vegan.
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