December 2015, Flanders, Timothy F, RN, CNP, PHD, et al. Mighty Earth (New), "Measuring the Daily Destruction of the World's Rainforests". Nature Communications. x 9.32 m.) = 1.1184 billion lbs. "Dietary greenhouse-gas emissions of meat-eaters, fish-eaters, vegetarians and vegans in the UK". FAO Newsroom. The North Carolina Division of Water Quality estimates that hog factories constitute the largest source of airborne ammonia in North Carolina, more than cattle, chickens, and turkeys combined. 8 November 2012, Oppenlander, Richard. Best of luck! "Ocean Dead Zones Are Getting Worse Globally Due to Climate Change". Cheers Alberto! World Resources Institute. "The Ultimate Mystery Meat: Exposing the Secrets Behind Burger King and Global Meat Production". [xix]   Few prominent scientists will openly proclaim the connection of their research findings with the need to eliminate animal agriculture or promotion of fully plant based nutrition. “Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change were pigs, chickens and cows?”, Goodland, Robert & Anhang, Jeff. But whatever your initial reason ‘why’, you’ve now got another big one to back it up with. [/block], Note: the facts used in the Cowspiracy Infographic were collected from cowspiracy.com and are accurate as of the 25th November 2014.Â, [tdivider style=”fa-bookmark” color=”#292929″], As you can see, some of the facts from the film are pretty crazy…. Vol. – CO2 based of feed conversion ratios and the average US meat consumption of 209lbs per year, per person. Making a Difference With Every Bite: The Power of the Fork!". Global governmental institutions such as the United Nations and its FAO should examine all the facts and present them accordingly as they interrelate. Chest Sculpting. I’m just doing this because I believe the documentary is important, and I think as many people as possible deserve to hear about it.Â. Time. March, 2013 (New), Worm, Boris, et al. "Brazilian beef giant announces moratorium on rainforest beef". = 870 million lbs. [i] NOTE: In 2013 the UN-FAO lowered livestock’s GHG emissions to 14.5%. "Amazon Destruction". could you please share it in SVG format to translate it into Spanish? We choose to use in the film the widely cited conservative number of 2500 gallons per pound of US beef from Dr. George Borgstrom, Chairman of Food Science and Human Nutrition Dept of College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University, "Impacts on Demand for and Quality of land and Water." I know that many of you readers are already in the process of making the transition. Would you consider sending us a high-res version that we could download & print? govegan.com. U.S. Energy Information. Washington, DC: Center for Science in the Public Interest, 2006. The USDA says that agriculture is responsible for 80-90 percent of US water consumption and growing the feed crops for livestock consumes 56% of that water, bringing the total water consumption of the livestock industry to 34 trillion gallons. The energy/fuel inputs are similar. June 13, 2014, "The Habitable Planet. August 2013, McWilliams, James F. "All Sizzle and No Steak. "How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction". Raising livestock produces more greenhouse gasses than all methods of transportation combine. There are many other factors to consider in terms of level of concern we should have regarding the role of food choice in climate change, global depletion in general, and certain applicable time lines as represented (or misrepresented) by the United Nations or any other governing or research institution. "Vegetarianism and the Environment. "Food Facts: How Much Water Does it Take to Produce...?" "Protect nature for world economic security, warns UN biodiversity chief". 50. "Pink Slime and the Legal History of Food Disparagement". Taking into consideration that 1lb of beef requires upwards of 2500 gallons of water to produce compared to only 25 gallons for 1lb of wheat, the water footprint of a person consuming a high meat diet could be 100x greater than that of a person consuming only plant foods. Facts. UN News Centre. Smithsonian.com. However, the GWP of methane is actually 86 GWP at 20 years, 4    the report gave no consideration to carbon sequestration potential lost on land now used for livestock and feed production, which should have been considered as emissions (45% of the land mass on Earth now used by livestock and crops to feed them–International Livestock Research Institute), 5    Consideration should be given to the fact that the lead authors have potential bias in this report; Pierre Gerber is the Livestock Policy Officer of the FAO and Henning Steinfeld is Chief, Livestock Information of the Livestock Sector Policy Branch of the FAO. Surely if we want to take these problems seriously, we should focus our efforts on fixing one of the leading causes, rather than other issues that are having less of an impact? February 2017, Bellantonio, Marisa, et al. Bitte immer nur genau eine Deutsch-Englisch-Übersetzung eintragen (Formatierung siehe Guidelines), möglichst mit einem guten Beleg im Kommentarfeld. Oppenlander, Richard A.Food Choices and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won’t Work. So there you have it folks. 3    there is no discussion, in an overview sense, to provide clarity regarding the component this happens to represent in livestock’s role, or food choice for that matter, in our current state of un-sustainability and the interrelated issues we face–freshwater scarcity, collapse of sea life oceanic ecosystems, unprecedented extinctions and loss of biodiversity, food security and agricultural land use inefficiencies, implications in human health and disease, rising health care costs and loss of productivity, economic risk factors, questions of social justice and implications regarding future generations, etc. Climactic Change July 2014., Volume 125, Issue 2, pp 179-192, "Meat Eater's Guide to Climate Change and Health". Vegetarian Times. 2016 (New), "Shark Fin Trade Myths and Truths: BYCATCH". I think there are lots of aspects to the climate crisis (livestock is a big one, but not actually the biggest). "Redefining agricultural yields: form tonnes to people nourished per acre". Why are we encouraged to change our light bulbs, have shorter showers and avoid palm oil, but nothing gets said about our diets? Digital Download Order the DVD Blog Watch on Netflix Education Screenings. "Beef: Diverting resources to environmentally destructive uses". of waste per day x 74 million pigs, -Sheep and Goats, 5 lbs. Eckley, Erika H & McEowen, Roger A. There’s plenty of reasons to be skeptical about global warming, not the least of which is that temperatures have declined or remained flat as CO2 has increased. of waste per day x 83.68 million cows, -Calves, 30 lbs. Take Extinction Off Your Plate: a project of the Center for Biological Diversity. "Cattle Ranching's Impact on the Rainforest". November 10, 2014, Tilman, David, et al. Then, they should be able to call for the frank elimination (or comprehensive “replacement”) of imminent threats to our survival such as food choices and agricultural systems that are disease promoting, ecologically unsustainable, and which condone massive unnecessary slaughtering–rather than calling for their perpetuation. "The Rising Murder Count of Environmental Activists". Ranganathan, Janet & Waite, Richard. November 2, 2006, Montaigne, Fen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. World Resources Institute. 22. John Hopkins Center for a Liveable Future. I will edit tit at some point though! U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Dec. 16, 2013, "Risk Management Evaluation for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations". Vegetarians should look away". Of that 1.9 billion acres: 778 million acres of private land are used for livestock grazing (forest grazing, pasture grazing, and crop grazing), 345 million acres for feed crops, 230 million acres of public land are used for grazing livestock. Marine Policy. (New). of waster per day x 350.7 million laying hens. Inhabitat. Vegetarian Times. USDA: Natural Resources Conservation Service. Post growth: From bigger towards better. Agriculture is the largest "consumer" of water because it pulls water from the source and locks it up in products, not returning it to the source immediately, if ever. June 9, 2012, "Freshwater Depletion: Realities of Choice". Cowspiracy is a documentary made in the USA that seeks to uncover the ‘truth’ behind the “most destructive industry facing the planet today,” and the reasons “why the world’s leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it.” ... the facts are laid bare. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Because more than 50% of the land use changes on Earth are related to livestock (ILRI), 70 to 90% of freshwater pollution in western countries (particularly the U.S. and China) can be traced back to animal agriculture, minimally 14.5% of anthropogenic GHG emissions/climate change, and 100% of “exploitation of marine environments” is related to the global commercial fishing industry, it can be safely and confidently demonstrated that “the primary driver of global species’ extinctions and loss of biodiversity is animal agriculture.”. Thanks for pointing that out. Science of the Total Environment 536 (2015) 419-431, "Risk Management Evaluation for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations". "Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services". I’m usually more of ‘share a few ideas, take what resonates with you’ sort of guy. Cowspiracy Claims: “Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the combined exhaust from all transportation.” “Livestock and their byproducts account for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51% of … Sea levels are rising, along with temperatures. November/December 2009 … March 2011. Hi, I’ve just updated the post and included links so you can download the original .svg file and make any translations 🙂 If you do share the file on your own site, link it back to me so I can check it out! Yeah I know what you mean, sometimes it’s frustrating. "Paris climate deal to ignite a $90 trillion energy revolution". WorldWatch. 2004, Hance, Jeremy. Throughout the film we are taken face to face with environmental organizations, including one I wrote for in 2014 that I’m very familiar with and hold a big place in my heart for: Sierra Club. September, 2014, Zuraw, Lydia. "A Leading Cause of Everything: One Industry That Is Destroying Our Planet and Our Ability to Thrive on It". Public Health Reports 2012 Jan-Feb; 127 (1): 4-22, 7,605 metric tons of food produced per minute, Holt-Giménez, Eric. July 2010, "Discard and bycatch in Shrimp trawl fisheries". Research Journal of Recent Sciences. Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, 2014 A.U.M. "Official statistics understate global fish catch, new estimate concludes". Cheers! "Anthropegnic emissions of methane in the United States". But the reason I never thought about the 51% number in Cowspiracy is because the UN Report throws out a lot of numbers about livestock, including this: The live stock sector is a major player, responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions measured in CO2 equivalent.