by beach babe in fl
In this weekly series we have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including; better health pdf, food safety, global food crisis, animal rights, frugal living and the huge contribution of meat production to climate change/depletion of resources. Where the environment is concerned, eating meat is like driving a 16-wheeler and leaving the engine running all the time. Eating a vegetarian diet is like riding a motorbike, and eating a vegan diet is like riding a bicycle. the average vegan uses about one-sixth of an acre of land to satisfy his or her food requirements for an entire year; the average vegetarian requires about three times as much land; and the average meat-eater requires about 20 times as much land. It takes about four times as much water to feed a vegetarian as it does to feed a vegan and 14 times as much water to feed a meat-eater.
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