If the abuse and killing of animals wasn’t enough of a reason to go vegetarian
August 2nd, 2008 by admin
- According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the American meat industry produces more than 60 million tons of waste annually, 130 times the volume of human waste.
- The methane that cattle and their manure produce has a global warming effect equal to that of 33 million automobiles.
Just two of the points in a feature story in this week’s Orlando Weekly. Author Jim Motavalli concludes, “If you never thought that eating meat was an environmental (and by extension, political) issue, now is the time to rethink that position.”