Over the weekend, I was reading an interesting article about the consequences of eating meat in the
If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the
- 100 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the homes in
- 1.5 billion pounds of crops otherwise fed to livestock, enough to feed the state of
- 70 million gallons of gas–enough to fuel all the cars of
- 3 million acres of land, an area more than twice the size of
- 33 tons of antibiotics.
If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the
- Greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1.2 million tons of CO2, as much as produced by all of
- 3 million tons of soil erosion and $70 million in resulting economic damages;
- 4.5 million tons of animal excrement;
- Almost 7 tons of ammonia emissions, a major air pollutant.
Food for thought!!!
Rabih
