Help the Environment!!
Being vegetarian/vegan is a huge way to help the environment. It is better than giving up your SUV to drive a hybrid and it is better than making sure your plastics are recycled. The obvious point to make is that it is more efficient to grow crops and feed them directly to people than to feed them to animals that feed people.
People also do not understand how many animals there are in America to give us food - 10 billion cows!!!!!! That is a lot of pollution going into our environment that includes methane gas being released into the air and cow shit being run off into our rivers and oceans, polluting them.
Our meat industry is a huge problem for our environment and the worst part is that no one understands! I know plenty of Environmental Science majors at my university that are huge meat eaters.
“Someone who regularly eats factory-farmed animal products cannot call himself an environmentalist without divorcing that word from its meaning” - Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
Being vegetarian/vegan is a huge way to help the environment. It is better than giving up your SUV to drive a hybrid and it is better than making sure your plastics are recycled. The obvious point to make is that it is more efficient to grow crops and feed them directly to people than to feed them to animals that feed people.
People also do not understand how many animals there are in America to give us food - 10 billion cows!!!!!! That is a lot of pollution going into our environment that includes methane gas being released into the air and cow shit being run off into our rivers and oceans, polluting them.
Our meat industry is a huge problem for our environment and the worst part is that no one understands! I know plenty of Environmental Science majors at my university that are huge meat eaters.
“Someone who regularly eats factory-farmed animal products cannot call himself an environmentalist without divorcing that word from its meaning” - Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
