Becoming Vegetarian or Vegan is the best thing you can do for your body, the animals, and the Earth.

Below is interesting information to know to if you are considering a vegan, vegetarian, or diet of less meat. Also below is which petitions have been taken down because change.org just might be scared of allowing people to speak out about this issue.

DID YOU KNOW? 

• A person who follows a vegan diet produces the equivalent of 50% less carbon dioxide, uses 1/11th oil, 1/13th water, and 1/18th land compared to a meat-lover for their food.
•  Each day, a person who eats a vegan diet saves 1,100 gallons of water, 45 pounds of grain, 30 sq ft of forested land, 20 lbs CO2 equivalent, and one animal’s life

GREEN HOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ARE PRIMARILY CAUSED BY THE MEAT INDUSTRY

• Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 PERCENT of greenhouse gas emissions, MORE THAN the combined exhaust from all transportation.
• Transportation exhaust is responsible for 13% of all greenhouse gas emissions.  [.i]
• Greenhouse gas emissions from this sector primarily involve fossil fuels burned for road, rail, air, and marine transportation.
• 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 is 25-100 TIMES MORE DESTRUCTIVE THAN 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.
• Emissions for agriculture projected to increase 80% by 2050.

AND NOT TO SCARE YOU OR ANYTHING, BUT;

• Energy related emissions expected to increase ONLY 20% by 2040.
• 5% of water consumed in the US is by private homes. 55% of water consumed in the US is for animal agriculture. [xv]

YOUR WATER USAGE IN YOUR OWN HOME DOES NOT EVEN COMPARE TO THE AMOUNT THAT ANIMAL AGRICULTURE DOES!

• 26 million rain forest acres (10.8m hectares) have been cleared for palm oil production. [ix]

NOT EVEN CLOSE TO.....

• The 136 million rain forest acres cleared for animal agriculture.

THE RAIN FORESTS, THE EARTH'S LUNGS, ARE BEING DESTROYED BY MEAT CONSUMPTION!!!

AND PEOPLE ARE BEING SHUT UP BY THE MEAT INDUSTRY

• 1,100 Land activists have been KILLED in Brazil in the past 20 years -
• 82% of STARVING CHILDREN live in countries where food is fed to animals, and the animals are eaten by western countries.

WHICH IS MOST LIKELY WHY CHANGE.ORG HAS OPTED TO TAKE DOWN PETITIONS LIKE THIS:

https://www.change.org/p/the-world-take-the-pledge-to-stop-eating-meat-animal-products-for-one-day​

 https://www.change.org/p/all-stop-paying-for-55-billion-animals-to-be-slaughtered-every-year-stop-eating-meat

AND FINALLY, THE PETITION FOR BBC TO SCREEN THE DOCUMENTARY PROMOTING THIS MOVEMENT; WHICH WAS ALSO TAKEN DOWN:

https://www.change.org/p/bbc-screen-the-documentary-cowspiracy

SIGN THIS PETITION TO ASK CHANGE.ORG TO STOP SILENCING THE MOVEMENT OF PREVENTING THIS GLOBAL ISSUE, AND TO ENCOURAGE THOSE WHO SPEAK OUT DESPITE THE RISKS!

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, COWSPIRACY, A DOCCUMENTARY WHICH GOES INTO DEPTH ABOUT THIS SUBJECT, IS ON NETFLIX, OR CHECK OUT http://www.cowspiracy.com/ FOR MORE INFORMATION

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