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Transportation exhaust is responsible for 13% of all greenhouse gas emissions.
Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector primarily involve fossil fuels burned for road, rail, air, and marine transportation. "Livestock's Long Shadow: environmental issues and options". Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Rome 2006 Environmental Protection Agency. "Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data".
Livestock and their byproducts account for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.
Goodland, R Anhang, J. “Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change were pigs, chickens and cows?” Goodland, Robert & Anhang, Jeff. "Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change are...cows, pigs and chickens?". WorldWatch. November/December 2009 Hickman, Martin. "Study claims meat creates half of all greenhouse gases". Independent. November 2009 Hyner, Christopher. "A Leading Cause of Everything: One Industry That Is Destroying Our Planet a...
Cows produce 150 billion gallons of methane per day.
Ross, Phillip. "Cow Farts Have 'Larger Greenhouse Gas Impact' Than Previously Thought; Methane Pushes Climate Change". International Business Times. 26 November, 2013 250-500 liters per cow per day, x 1.5 billion cows globally is 99 - 198.1 billion gallons. Rough average of 150 billion gallons CH4globally per day. Miller, Scot M, et al. "Anthropegnic emissions of methane in the United States". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol. 110. No. 50. 18 October 2013(new)
Growing feed crops for livestock consumes 56% of water in the US.
Jacobson, Michael F. “Six Arguments For a Greener Diet: How a More Plant-based Diet Could Save Your Health and the Environment. Chapter 4: More and Cleaner Water”. Washington, DC: Center for Science in the Public Interest, 2006.
2,500 gallons of water are needed to produce 1 pound of beef.
(NOTE. The amount of water used to produce 1lb. of beef vary greatly from 442 - 8000 gallons. 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." ) Robbins, John. "2,500 gallons all wet?" Earth Save: Healthy People Healthy Planet. Pimente...
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution, and habitat destruction.
Animal agriculture contributes to species extinction in many ways. In addition to the monumental habitat destruction caused by clearing forests and converting land to grow feed crops and for animal grazing, predators and "competition" species are frequently targeted and hunted because of a perceived threat to livestock profits. The widespread use of pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers used in the production of feed crops often interferes with the reproductive systems of animals an...
2-5 acres of land are used per cow.
McBride, William D., Mathews Jr., Kenneth. "The Diverse Structure and Organization of U.S. Beef Cow-Calf Farms". USDA: Economic Research Service. Number 73. March 2011 Oppenlander, Richard A. Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won’t Work. Minneapolis, MN: Langdon Street, 2013. Print.
Nearly half of the contiguous US is devoted to animal agriculture.
Glaser, Christine, et al. "Costs and Consequences: The Real Price of Livestock Grazing on America's Public Lands". For the Center for Biological Diversity. January 2015 The US lower 48 states represents 1.9 billion acres. 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. Nickerson, Cynthia, et al. "Maj...
Every minute, 7 million pounds of excrement are produced by animals raised for food in the US.
This doesn’t include the animals raised outside of USDA jurisdiction or in backyards, or the billions of fish raised in aquaculture settings in the US. [v] "Animal Manure Management". USDA: Natural Resources Conservation Service. RCA Issue Bief #7. December 1995 "Agricultural Waste Management Field Handbook". USDA: Natural Resources Conservation Service. Part 651 "Agricultural Waste Characteristics". Agricultural Waste Management Field Handbook. USDA. Chapter 4
In the U.S. livestock produce 116,000 lbs of waste per second:
-Dairy Cows, 120 lbs. of waste per day x 9.32 million dairy cows -Cows, 63 lbs. of waste per day x 83.68 million cows -Calves, 30 lbs. of waste per day x 34.3 million calves -Pigs, 14 lbs. of waste per day x 74 million pigs -Sheep and Goats, 5 lbs. of waste per day x 7.84 million sheep and goats -Turkeys, .87 lbs. of waster per day x 77 million turkeys -Broiler Chickens, .50 lbs. of waste per day x 1.74 billion broiler chickens -Laying Hens, .25 lbs. of waster per day x 350.7 million laying h...
Animals produce Enough waste to cover SF, NYC, Tokyo, etc,
based off 1lb of waste per 1sqft at 1.4 billion tons. *Total manure produced in one year is 3.475 trillion lbs. (From above calculation.) US Livestock produce 335 million tons of “dry matter” per year.
Animal agriculture is responsible for up to 91% of Amazon destruction.
Margulis, Sergio. "Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon". World Bank Working Paper No. 22. 2003 Tabuchi, Hiroko, Rigny, Claire & White, Jeremy. "Amazon Deforestation, Once Tamed, Comes Roaring Back". New York Times. February 2017(New) Bellantonio, Marisa, et al. "The Ultimate Mystery Meat: Exposing the Secrets Behind Burger King and Global Meat Production". Mighty Earth(New) Oppenlander, Richard A. Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby...
70 billion farmed animals are reared annually worldwide. More than 6 million animals are killed for food every hour.
"Factory Farms". A Well Fed World "Strategic Plan 2013-2017: For Kinder, Fairer Farming Worldwide". Compassion in World Farming "Animals Slaughtered". Animals Deserve Absolute Protection Today and Tomorrow Oppenlander, Richard A.Food Choices and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won’t Work. Minneapolis, MN : Langdon Street, 2013. Print. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/food-choice-and-sustainability-richard-a-oppenlander/1117327379?ean=9781626524354
Throughout the world, humans drink 5.2 billion gallons of water and eat 21 billion pounds of food each day.
There are 7.5011 billion people on earth Based on rough averages of water at .5-1 gallon (.75 gallons) x 7.5011 billion = 5.626 billion gallons of water and 7,605 metric tons of food produced per minute= 24.143 billion pounds of food per day.
Worldwide, cows drink 45 billion gallons of water and eat 135 billion pounds of food each day.
Based on rough averages of 30 gallons of water & 100 lbs. of foodper day x of cows 1.468 billion cows
14 de ene. de 2021 · Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014) es un documental que puedes ver en el servicio de streaming Netflix, producido y dirigido por Kip Andersen y Keegan Kuhn. El documental explora el impacto de la industria agrícola-ganadera en el medio ambiente e investiga cómo es que distintas organizaciones ambientales, como Greenpeace ...
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Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a 2014 American documentary film produced and directed by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn. The film explores the impact of animal agriculture on the environment—examining such environmental concerns as climate change , water use , deforestation , and ocean dead zones —and investigates the ...
7 de oct. de 2015 · Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a groundbreaking feature-length environmental documentary following filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today – and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it.
7 de sept. de 2021 · Cowspiracy es un documental producido por Leonardo DiCaprio para Netflix que trata sobre un informe de la ONU, de 2013, que apunta a la ganadería como el principal causante de la devastación actual del planeta. 07 de septiembre de 2021 - 15:00.
