Mercy For Animals presents Farm to Fridge. Narrated by Oscar-nominee James Cromwell, this powerful film takes viewers on an eye-opening exploration behind the closed doors of the nation’s largest industrial farms, hatcheries, and slaughter plants — revealing the often-unseen journey that animals make from Farm to Fridge.
A recent article found at The New Foreign Policy argues that, like it or not, the vegetarian revolution is upon us and it is arriving by force. The article centers not on the moral or ethical debate for an animal-free diet but rather supports the logical conclusion to a meat filled world, total environmental destruction. Here’s a sample:
The numbers suggest that we won’t stop eating meat simply because it’s “the right thing to do.” People love it too much. Instead, we’ll be forced to stop. By 2025, we simply won’t have the resources to keep up the habit. According to the FAO report, 33 percent of the world’s arable land is devoted to growing crops for animal feed, and grazing is a major factor in deforestation around the world. It’s also incredibly water-intensive. The average U.S. diet requires twice the daily amount of water as does an equally nutritious vegetarian diet, reports the Worldwatch Institute. Meanwhile, there will be more than 8 billion people on this earth, and two-thirds of the world’s population will live in water-stressed regions.
I agree fully with the author of this article. Many people will never care how brutal or unhealthy meat consumption is but they may someday care to have clean water to drink and fresh air to breathe. The vegetarian/vegan revolution will arrive by force, I can almost guarantee it. If you are not a vegetarian now, you may be one in 16 years.
For the past couple of decades, scientists and laymen have been talking loudly about how badly man has overfished the world’s ocean.
Statistics piled upon statistics haven’t seemed to slow our rapacious take; the World Wildlife Fund insists that at today’s rate, by 2050 every species of fish currently known will be gone.
Now, a fresh analysis shows that unsustainable fishing is taking food out of the mouths of the world’s poor, while costing the international economy somewhere between $36 billion and $100 billion a year.
The report, by economist Rashid Sumaila, working with the University of British Columbia’s Fisheries Centre and supported by the Pew Environment Group, suggests that well-managed fisheries may simultaneously boost both the natural resource and the bottom line.
The report, the first comprehensive, peer-reviewed estimate of the global economic contribution of the world’s fisheries, was first published in the Journal of Bioeconomics.
Sumaila and team studied fishing numbers from 1950 to 2004 and concluded that more than 50 percent of the wild fish stocks in the world’s oceans are now overfished and in the process of “crashing” or have already crashed.
That’s usually where overfishing reports stop.
This report goes further, putting hard numbers on the costs of overfishing: $36 billion in potential economy is lost every year due to bad fishing practices. That number triples when you consider the potential economic gains once the fish are laid on the dock—of distributors, supermarkets and restaurants, boat builders, bait suppliers and international shippers.
(Real meat-eaters) have a short intestinal tract so they can push through quickly decaying and rotting animal flesh, animal protein, cholesterol, saturated fat, trans-fatty acids, which is why it is impossible, I repeat, impossible, for any genuine meat-eater to ever clog their arteries. What’s the number one killer of humans who choose to eat meat, cheese,milk and eggs? Heart disease from clogged arteries.
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