Education

• 77% of all habitable land is used for production of meat and dairy yet it provides a fraction (18%) of our global calorie supply.

• We feed 80 billion farm animals and cannot feed 8 billion humans. 

• Our animal agriclutural system is wasteful and inefficient. Cut out the middle man (the cow, the pig, the chicken) and feed the world!

• Animal agriculture In the US consumes 55% of all freshwater, compared to 5% used by all households combined.

• Producing meat and dairy requires vast amounts of water: 

• 600-1000 gallons of water to produce just 1 gallon of cow’s milk 

• 2400 gallons for one pound of beef

• Manure and fertilizer runoff pollute rivers and oceans, creating dead zones throughout the world.

Deforestation for animal agriculture eliminates the homes of countless species, from insects and birds to large mammals.

• The result is that today, ~60% of mammal biomass is livestock, 36% is humans, and only ~4% is wild mammals.

• This staggering imbalance shows how profoundly animal agriculture has replaced wild ecosystems with managed landscapes, driving biodiversity loss and leading us to the Sixth Mass Extinction.

• Animal agriculture is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the entire global transportation sector combined: all cars, planes, trains and ships combined. 

• Trees are the lungs of the earth. Deforestation for animal agriculture both adds emissions (by releasing stored carbon in trees and soils and producing methane/nitrous oxide from cows digestion and manure) and removes a vital carbon sink (forests).

• Raising animals for food consumes far more natural resources (land, water, feed) than growing plants directly--this inefficiency drives higher emissions per calorie or gram of meat and dairy compared to plant based foods.