Eating Meat Harms The Planet? and What is Wrong with Chicken, Fish,Milk and Eggs?

How Does Eating Meat Harm The Planet?

Global Warming:

·        According to a recent United Nations Report, The Meat Industry causes more global warming (through emissions of Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide) than all the cars, trucks, SUVS, Planes, and Ships in the World Combined. Researchers at the University of Chicago determined that switching to a vegan diet is 50 percent more effective that switching from a regular car to a hybrid in reducing your impact on global warming.

Water Resources:

·        More than half of all the water consumed in the U.S. is Used to raise animals for food. A totally Vegetarian diet requires 300 gallons of water per day, while a meat-based diet requires more than 4,000 gallons of water per day.

Pollution:

·        Farmed animals produce about 130 times as much excrement as the entire human population of the United States. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the run-off from factory farms pollutes our rivers and lakes more than all other industrial sources combined.

“Raising animals for food is “one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local top global.”-United Nations

The Hazards of Eating Chicken, Fish, Milk, and Eggs

·        Because chickens are now bred and drugged to grow so large, chicken flesh today contains three times as much fat as it did just 35 years ago. The most toxic form of the poison arsenic is used in chicken feed because it promotes faster growth. The National Institutes of Health warns that this cancer-causing chemical is then ingested by people who eat chicken flesh. Men’s Health magazine ranked chicken as the number one food you should never eat because of its high rate of bacterial contamination.

·        Anyone who eats fish for health reasons should think again: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revealed that women who ate fish just twice a week had blood mercury concentrations that were seven times higher than those of women who didn’t eat fish. A woman who eats just one can of tuna per week will be 30 percent over the EPA cutoff for safe mercury levels. Mercury is known to cause sever health problems for humans, including brain damage, memory loss, and damage to a developing fetus. One study showed that women who regularly ate fish were more likely to have babies who were sluggish at birth, had small head circumferences, and had developmental problems. Women who consume even low levels of fish contaminated with PCBs, Mercury, or other toxins have a more difficult time conceiving. Some of these chemicals remain in the body for many years. Plant foods like walnuts and flax seeds and vegetarian DHA capsules contain essential fatty acids that we need without the harmful toxins found in fish flesh.

·        No species naturally drinks milk beyond the age of weaning, and no species would naturally drink milk from other species. For humans, drinking cow’s milk has been linked to heart disease, some types of cancer, diabetes, and even osteoporosi0s, the very disease that the diary industry claims its products are supposed to prevent! The high animal-protein content of milk actually causes calcium to be leached from the body. According to a Harvard Medical School analysi0s of the evidence, milk does not protect against osteoporosis. One egg contains a staggering 220 milligrams of cholesterol, which clogs your arteries and leads to heart disease.

All this information is from a PETA’s Magazine. I just found this very interesting and wanted to share it with everyone.