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"The world’s climate scientists tell us that the highest safe level of emissions would be around 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. We’re already at 400."

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This means that the meat and dairy industry produces more greenhouse gases than the exhaust of all cars, trucks, trains, boats, planes combined. Cows and other farmed animals produce a substantial amount of methane from their digestive process. Methane gas from livestock is 86 times more destructive than carbon dioxide from vehicles.

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Livestock market plays a crucial role in the climate crisis but we are not even aware of it. 

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Livestock market plays a crucial role in the climate crisis but we are not even aware of it. 

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A quote from an OCE (Obsessive - Compulsive - Environmentalist) :

"I went to the nation’s largest environmental organization’s websites, 350.org, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Climate Reality, Rainforest Action Network, Amazon Watch, and was shocked to see they had virtually nothing on animal agriculture."

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A planet-wide draught: The reason is Hamburgers ?!

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A planet-wide draught: The reason is Hamburgers ?!

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- Quarter-pound hamburger requires over 660 gallons of water to produce

- Just eating one hamburger is the equivalent of showering two entire months

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An endless growth in meat production industry

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An endless growth in meat production industry

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Meat is an important source of nutrition for many people around the world. Global demand for meat is growing: over the past 50 years, meat production has more than tripled. The world now produces more than 340 million tonnes each year.

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In 2018, an estimated 69 billion chickens; 1.5 billion pigs; 656 million turkeys; 574 million sheep; 479 million goats; and 302 million cattle were killed for meat production.

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The average person in the world consumed around 43 kilograms of meat in 2014. This ranges from over 100kg in the US and Australia to only 5kg in India.

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Although the officials are acknowledging the crucial effects of animal agriculture, they are not willing to do anything about the problem and the worse part is that they don't have a credible explanation.

Andersen: That would be really powerful. Rather than waiting till we’re in a drought, what do you think about just starting now, and say to whoever’s in charge of Save Our Water, “Hey, let’s start encouraging people to eat less meat now “because these studies are coming out”?

Official: I don’t think that’ll happen.

Andersen: Why?

Official: I don’t think that’ll happen.

Andersen: Why?

Official: Because of the way government is set up here.

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"Animal agriculture was responsible for 51% of human-caused climate change when the loss of carbon sinks, respiration and methane are properly accounted for, which the UN study failed to address. But not only that, I found out that raising animals for food is responsible for 30% of the world’s water consumption, occupies up to 45% of the Earth’s land, is responsible for up to 91% of Brazilian Amazon destruction, is a leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, habitat destruction, and species extinction."

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An OCE who acknowledged the severity of animal agriculture started reach out to global environment organizations who are supposed to protect us from ourselves. 

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An OCE who acknowledged the severity of animal agriculture started reach out to global environment organizations who are supposed to protect us from ourselves. 

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I had to speak with environmental organizations and find out why they weren’t addressing this issue. I sent off dozens of emails, made call after call, spent hours on hold. Days became weeks, and weeks became months, and for some reason, no one wanted to talk to me about this.

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Environmental organizations do not want to address the primary driving cause of environmental devastation, which is animal agriculture, because they’re businesses. And they want to make sure that they have a reliable source of funding.

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It’s like when we talk about the fact that when we have a dysfunctional family and the father’s an alcoholic, that’s the one thing no one talks about. Everybody goes around that, and yet it’s the one thing that’s causing the devastation in the relationships in the family, because no one wants to talk about it.

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Anderson the OCE and the main character of the documentary decided that no one was going to listed to him through e-mails and phone calls... he decided to something else

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Anderson the OCE and the main character of the documentary decided that no one was going to listed to him through e-mails and phone calls... he decided to something else

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"That was it. No more emails, no more phone calls. I had enough. I realized if I wanted answers, I would have to go to these organizations’ headquarters in person."

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" If we’re to use the Markegard model of raising animals, which requires 4,500 acres producing 80,000 pounds of meat, the average American eats 209 pounds of meat per year. If that was all grass-fed beef, only 382 people could be fed on their land. That equates to 11.7 acres per person times 314 million Americans, which equals 3.7 billion acres of grazing land. Unfortunately, there are only 1.9 billion acres in the US’s lower 48 states. Currently nearly half of all United States’ land is already dedicated to animal agriculture. If we’re to switch over to grass-fed beef, it would require clearing every square inch of the United States, up into Canada, all of Central America, and well into South America. And this is just to feed the United States’ demand on meat.  "

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"Do what you can do as well as you can do it every day of your life, and you will end up dying one of the happiest individuals that have ever died."

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"Do what you can do as well as you can do it every day of your life, and you will end up dying one of the happiest individuals that have ever died."

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Howard Lyman: "You can go today and tell the truth, and you will be guilty, because if you cause a disruption in the profits of the animal industry, you’re guilty under the Patriot Act."

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Oceana saying, “The best way to help fish is to eat fish.” This is the same man, during the 1950s, working as a research officer for the game department of what is now Zimbabwe, came up with a theory that actually elephants were the cause of desertification there. And his solution was convincing the government to kill 40,000 elephants. Yet, after 14 years of relentless slaughter, the conditions only got worse. His theory was wrong.

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Anderson realized that Al Gore the politician who inspired him to be an environmentalist has failed to mention the problem of animal agriculture. He started to question if the truth was too inconvenient for him

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Animal agriculture companies are trying to decieve people by saying "animals like it just as much being inside…  the chickens and the cows like being just as much inside as pasture grass-fed. In a lot of cases, it’s been a significant improvement in their well-being, just in terms of the amount of care they can get, individualized care."

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"This was about all life on Earth hanging in the balance of our actions. Now you either live for something, or die for nothing."

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The human population drinks 5.2 billion gallons of water every day and eats 21 billion pounds of food. But just the world’s 1.5 billion cows alone drink 45 billion gallons of water every day and eat 135 billion pounds of food.

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!!!! The fact of it is if you can grow corn to stuff down the throat of an animal, you can actually grow corn and feed it to a human. !!!!

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!!!! The fact of it is if you can grow corn to stuff down the throat of an animal, you can actually grow corn and feed it to a human. !!!!

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"You’re creating a false justification, clearly a false sense of justification for what you’re doing on those other six days of the week. So in other words, we really shouldn’t be resting on our laurels of what you do right only one-seventh of the time. You can’t be an environmentalist and eat animal products, period. Kid yourself if you want, if you want to feed your addiction, so be it. But don’t call yourself an environmentalist."

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People definitely do not need to eat animal products to be healthy. There are many alternatives like this company who manufactures meat without animals

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People definitely do not need to eat animal products to be healthy. There are many alternatives like this company who manufactures meat without animals

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"It turns out there’s a successful movement of sustainable animal-alternative food producers based right here in California, funded by big names like Bill Gates and Biz Stone."... "We’re making the Omega products, and proving that we can make better tasting food that’s great for you, and it takes one-twentieth of the land and resources that dairy do. If I could tell you that you could have the fiber-structure of meat, the satiating bite of meat, the protein, and all the nutritional benefits of meat, without actually having animal protein itself,"

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"So as much food as we produce and we grow, or the earth helps us grow, we also have to return those nutrients back to the soil. So we like to think of our work as being regenerative. That we’re putting as much life-giving substance in the ground as we’re taking out." ... "So is it just kind of healthier and safer to use vegetarian -or vegetable composting stuff? -Yeah, that’s what we found. But also because it takes less time and it’s a lot easier to manage."

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To feed a person on an all-plant based vegan diet for a year requires just one-sixth of an acre of land. To feed that same person on a vegetarian diet that includes eggs and dairy requires three times as much land. To feed an average US citizen’s high-consumption diet of meat, dairy, and eggs requires 18 times as much land. This is because you can produce 37,000 pounds of vegetables on one and a half acres, but only 375 pounds of meat on that same plot of land.

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We have the choice every single day to save over 1,100 gallons of water, 45 pounds of grain, 30 square feet of forested land, the equivalent of 10 pounds of C02, and one animal’s life. Every single day.

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An alternative solution instead of long and expensive engineering solutions

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An alternative solution instead of long and expensive engineering solutions

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Another solution to climate change, we could stop eating animals. And it could be done today. It doesn’t have to take 20 years. And it certainly doesn’t have to take $18 trillion, because it costs nothing.

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All we would need is for the environmentalists to live what they profess

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All we would need is for the environmentalists to live what they profess

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We will not succeed until we stop animal agriculture. And by “succeed,” I mean we will not save ecosystems to the extent necessary. We will not have enough food for people around the planet, we will not stop global warming, we will not stop pollution in the dead zones that run off all the fields of corn and soy that are grown to feed livestock, and we will not stop the hunting of wolves and other predators.

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When you take the animal out, you also take the greenhouse gas issue out. And you take the food safety issues out. And you take some of other externalities related to food scarcity out. But one thing that’s amazing is I think you put our values back in. You put values like compassion, and integrity, and kindness… Values that are natural to human beings, you put that in.

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The only way to sustainably and ethically live on this planet with seven billion other people is to live an entirely plant-based vegan diet.

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"And acting kindly and gently on the whole planet and with other people, to accomplish the goals of living better. We can do it, but we have to choose to do it. You can change the world. You must change the world."

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"And acting kindly and gently on the whole planet and with other people, to accomplish the goals of living better. We can do it, but we have to choose to do it. You can change the world. You must change the world."