DANGERS DE LA VIANDE ROUGE.. GO VEGAN

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All transportation worldwide generates only about 13.5% of carbon dioxide contributing to global warming, according to a report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation. Eating meat, on the other hand, is responsible for at least 18% of carbon dioxide. Livestock also accounts for 37% of all the human-induced methane (which is 23-72 times more toxic to the ozone layer than carbon dioxide) and 65% of nitrous oxide (which is 296 times more toxic). And according to a more recent analysis by Worldwatch Institute, an independent environmental research institute, eating livestock and their byproducts may account for as much as 51% of global warming (at least 32.6 million tons of carbon dioxide per year).
Nitrous oxide and methane mostly come from manure, and 56 billion “food animals” produce a lot of manure each day.
“Holy sh*t” indeed…
The United States maintains more than 9 billion livestock, which consume about seven times as much grain as the entire U.S. population.


 Livestock now use 30% of all land worldwide and are causing deforestation, particularly in the Amazon, where 70% of forests are now used for grazing.
So, besides displacing land that could be used to grow food for humans, “more than half of U.S. grain and nearly 40% of world grain is being fed to livestock rather than being consumed directly by humans,” according to David Pimentel, professor of ecology in Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. That would feed a lot of hungry people.
It also takes significantly more energy to produce a unit of food higher on the food chain than a plant-based diet. To produce a quarter-pound burger with cheese takes 26 ounces of petroleum and leaves a 13-pound carbon footprint. This is equivalent to burning 7 pounds of coal, according to author and journalist Michael Pollan.
One-third of the water footprint from worldwide agriculture comes from the production of animal products, and one-third of that footprint is from beef, according to a report from the Institute for Water Education. Producing a pound of beef requires almost 2,000 gallons of water. Meanwhile, California is suffering from a major drought.
Also, more than 75% of the $2.8 trillion in annual U.S. health care costs go toward treating chronic diseases, which can be largely prevented and even reversed by eating a plant-based diet, at a fraction of the cost—and, unlike drugs and surgery, the only side-effects are good ones.
More than 37,000 men from the Harvard Health Professionals Follow-Up Study and more than 83,000 women from the Harvard Nurses Health Study were followed for almost 3 million person-years. Consumption of both processed and unprocessed red meat was associated with an increased risk of premature mortality from cardiovascular disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes.
And it’s not just the arteries in your heart that get clogged on a diet high in red meat. Erectile dysfunction—impotence—is significantly higher in meat eaters. In men 40 to 70, over half report problems with erectile dysfunction. But the Massachusetts Male Aging Study showed that eating a diet rich in fruit, vegetables, whole grains and fish — with fewer red and processed meat and refined grains — significantly decreased the likelihood of impotence.
Finally, eating a plant-based diet is a more compassionate way to eat. Each year, the U.S. grows and kills about 10 billion livestock animals, according to an analysis of USDA reports by the nonprofit Farm Animal Rights Movement.