LA GUERRE ANIMAUX ET NATURE CONTRE VIANDARDS

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NOUS FINIRONS PAR LA GAGNER CETTE GUERRE!!!!
ESPERONS QUE CE SERA LE PLUS VITE POSSIBLE!!!
IL NE PEUT PAS EN ETRE AUTREMENT AVEC OU SANS LES VIANDARDS!!! POUR LES ANIMAUX ET POUR LA PLANETE.
 LA NATURE REPRENDRA SES DROITS!!! ET LES ANIMAUX LEUR LIBERTE!!


 The environmental case against raising animals for food becomes increasingly stronger as more and more research emerges. A closer look at the finer points on the comparative water usage between livestock and plants highlights this correlation quite clearly. According to the authors cited in the Mother Jones article mentioned in my last post, beef has a water footprint of 15,415 cubic meters/ton. The water footprint for “sugar crops” is 197 cubic meters/ton and for vegetables it’s 240 cubic meters/ton. This dramatic disparity alone raises serious questions as to why anyone seeking to analyze the California drought would highlight the water footprint of nuts—admittedly, a relatively high 9’063 cubic meters/ton—when cattle consume so much of California’s scarce water supply, most of it in the form of alfalfa. Doing so strikes me as a case of distraction journalism. A related issue when it comes to comparing the ecological impact of the food we produce is methane–which has 72 times the global warming potential as carbon. Last year was a big year for methane research. Scientists discovered that U.S. methane output is 50 percent more than the EPA was estimating and 70 percent more than European Environmental Agency’s Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR). Especially revealing was the fact that livestock related emissions were twice the current estimates, accounting for up to 33 percent of global methane emissions. Cows burp and defecate, methane escapes, it harms the environment. This claim holds true for factory farmed and pastured animals. Given these kinds of figures, in addition to the urgency with which environmentalists rightfully urge humans to adjust their behavior to prevent planetary implosion, it strikes me as a little ridiculous that we’re actually having serious arguments over whether or not veganism is a good move for the environment. Of course it is. Let’s close that case and start talking about why the eco-foodies who wring their hands so earnestly about ecological destruction are not taking the obvious and in many ways the most accessible step of eating plants.