decided to do a number of little clips that have bite-sized information about different

reasons to go vegan – so first things first. If you are wondering where my hair went, you

should watch my other video. If you are wondering what the background noise is, here you go

[dog snoring].

Let’s start with our first reason to go vegan – ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT. In order to

make one pound of beef, we have to use two thousand five hundred (2,500) gallons of water,

fifty-five (55) square feet of rainforest, sixteen (16) pounds of grain and and eighty

(80) kilograms of CO2.

You can save more water by not eating one pound of beef than you can for not showering

for an entire six months! Then there is the land that we use, the equivalent

of seven football fields is bulldozed every minute worldwide in order to make more room

for farmed animals. Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming

than all the transportation in the world combined. It is actually the number one cause of climate

change.

It takes more than eleven times as much fossil fuel to make one calorie from animal protein

as it does to make one calorie from animal protein. And if all of that isn’t enough

for you, every second in the United States, eighty-nine thousand (89,000) pounds of faecal

matter is produced by our farmed animals – Oh yes, you heard that correctly – close to

ninety thousand (90,000) pounds of poop every second with no waste management treatment.

What we just went over is only scratching the surface of the environmental impact of

the meat and dairy industries on our planet but I promised to keep these short and frankly,

she’s exhausted.

Please join me next time when we go over the second bite-sized reason to go vegan.