A film about global warming
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 12:53 am
Hello everyone,
I watch a movie called "Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret" (I paste all the information from this movie in the lists that Mary created) and I feel that the facts that the movie talk about can be helpful to understand some of all the environmental implications that the meat consumption has on the environment.
Here I list some of these facts listed in the movie and are related to fact from the US, they can also be read on their webpage:
WATER CONSUMPTION
Alejandro CL
I watch a movie called "Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret" (I paste all the information from this movie in the lists that Mary created) and I feel that the facts that the movie talk about can be helpful to understand some of all the environmental implications that the meat consumption has on the environment.
Here I list some of these facts listed in the movie and are related to fact from the US, they can also be read on their webpage:
WATER CONSUMPTION
- 2,500 gallons of water are needed to produce 1 pound of beef.
- 477 gallons of water are required to produce 1lb. of eggs; almost 900 gallons of water are needed for 1lb. of cheese.
- Agriculture is responsible for 80-90% of US water consumption.
- Growing feed crops for livestock consumes 56% of water in the US.
- 1,000 gallons of water are required to produce 1 gallon of milk.
- 5% of water consumed in the US is by private homes. 55% of water consumed in the US is for animal agriculture.
- Livestock and their byproducts account for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.
- Methane has a global warming potential 86 times that of CO2 on a 20 year time frame.
- Livestock is responsible for 65% of all human-related emissions of nitrous oxide – a greenhouse gas with 296 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide, and which stays in the atmosphere for 150 years.
- Livestock or livestock feed occupies 1/3 of the earth’s ice-free land
- Livestock covers 45% of the earth’s total land.
- Animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution, and habitat destruction.
- 1/3 of the planet is desertified, with livestock as the leading driver.
- Every minute, 7 million pounds of excrement are produced by animals raised for food in the US.
- A farm with 2,500 dairy cows produces the same amount of waste as a city of 411,000 people.
- Animals produce Enough waste to cover SF, NYC, Tokyo, etc. (US Livestock produce 335 million tons of “dry matter” per year.)
- 130 times more animal waste than human waste is produced in the US – 1.4 billion tons from the meat industry annually. 5 tons of animal waste is produced per person in the US.
Alejandro CL