Around 80 billion animals are raised for meat every year.Add on that 9 billion humans and this planet is just not big enough to sustain these numbers. Animals do not grow on thin air. They need food and water. Almost 40% of world’s fresh water resources is used up for animals raised for meat. The relentless cutting down of the Amazon rain forests to start cattle ranching and to grow Soya to feed the animals is the cause of the climate change we are facing today. The waste of these animals like blood and slurry as well as discarded animal parts clog up our waterways, rivers and oceans, causing dead zones. A dairy cow produces as much as 50 human beings. Methane produced by farm animals is the biggest cause of global warming. We are facing an existential crisis and if do not change our diet soon we will be seeing catastrophic climate change for which future generations will not forgive us. Medical opinion says eating even a little meat can trigger many killer diseases. For health reasons, for the planet and for moral reasons mankind has to make that leap from a meat based diet to a plant based diet.
Nitin Mehta
Recent Comments