THE MISSION
The benefits of a vegan diet are numerous, but recently, in the times of our rapidly changing climate, the reduction of your impact on the environment has become one of the key argument for a shift to a vegan diet. Animals store only a small fraction of the energy they extract from the food they eat, and the water they consume, and the rest is wasted as heat. If you choose to eat animal products, most of the energy in the plants those animals ate has been lost as heat and only a fraction of it reaches you. Eating a plant-based diet is more efficient, meaning that less of the energy the plants contain is wasted. Ultimately, this means that less land is required to support a population of vegans, and our environment is less impacted by our consumption habits.
As we are slowly walking towards an era of more conscientious choices and preservation of environmental resources, we stated some alarming facts about the impact meat and dairy consumption can have.
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Here are the key environmental benefits of living vegan:
1. It reduces groundwater pollution.
2. It cuts down on greenhouse gases.
3. It helps preserve precious land resources.
THE AVERAGE AMOUNT OF MEAT CONSUMED PER PERSON GLOBALLY HAS NEARLY DOUBLED IN THE PAST 50 YEARS, FROM AROUND 23KG IN 1961 TO 43KG IN 2014.
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Devlin, Hannah. "Rising Global Meat Consumption Will Devastate Environment"
The Guardian. 19 July, 2018
250 TO 500 LITERS PER COW PER DAY x 1.5 BILLION COWS GLOBALLY EQUALS 99 TO 198.1 BILLION GALLONS. WHICH MEANS A ROUGH AVERAGE OF 150 BILLION GALLONS CH4 GLOBALLY PER DAY.
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Miller, Scot M, et al. "Anthropegnic Emissions of Methane in the United States" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol. 110. 18 October 2013
EVEN WITHOUT FOSSIL FUELS, WE WILL EXCEED OUR 565 GIGATONNES CO2 LIMIT BY 2030, ALL FROM BREEDING ANIMALS FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.
