tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957991602586223671.post6146630921904109668..comments2024-02-24T22:51:23.376-05:00Comments on The Earth Diet: Day 240Earth diet-er Liana!http://www.blogger.com/profile/02774126413652752908noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957991602586223671.post-57039715569897350682010-07-07T05:11:22.273-04:002010-07-07T05:11:22.273-04:00Hello beautiful,
This is very similar to your inf...Hello beautiful, <br />This is very similar to your information but I think the more the merrier, and it is sourced from somewhere else so it provides some more ground :D. This is Part 1, Part 2 I will do tomorrow.<br />The information below is provided from the following book: The New BECOMING A VEGETARIAN (p.6 & 7). Vesanto Melina, MS, RD & Brenda Davis, RD. Healthy Living Publication, Tennessee, 2003:<br />Why Be Vegetarian?<br />Protect the Environment: <br />">It assists in the preservation of water resources.<br />Animal agriculture demands tremendous amounts of fresh water. It is estimated that almost 50 percent of all water consumed in the United States is used for raising livestock. While water requirements vary according to location and the amount of irrigation required to grow animal feed, on average it takes about 100 times more water to produce a pound of beef than it does to produce a pound of wheat. It takes less water to produce the food that a vegan needs for one year than to produce the food that a meat eater needs for a month. <br />>It helps prevent water pollution.<br />According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), agriculture is the biggest polluter of Americas’ water systems. It is responsible for 70 percent of waterway pollution, its damage exceeding that of sewage treatment plans, urban storm sewers, and pollution from contaminants in air. The major offenders are livestock-feeding operations. Manure, traditionally used as a natural fertilizer to enrich soil generally is not returned from immense feedlots to distant farmland. Animals produce 130 times more than humans (eg. Animals produce 130 pounds of manure for every pound that humans produce).This waste is not processed through a sewerage system or treatment plant and all too often ends up poisoning rivers, causing sever oxygen depletion in the estuaries, and devastating fish populations. <br />>It Helps preserve the planet’s most valuable ecosystems: <br />Tropical rainforests are ecological treasures, housing half of the worlds plant and animal species. These precious resources are being at an alarming rate. According to the Rainforest Action Network, two-thirds of the rain forests in Central America have been cleared primarily for the purpose of raising cheap beef to stock American fast-food establishments. They estimate that for every fast-food burger made from rain forest beef, fifty five square feet (almost seventeen square meters) of tropical rain forest has been cleared. With the trees go twenty to thirty different plants species, one hundred different insects species, plus dozens of birds, mammals and reptile species. <br /><br />Keep up the good work Liana Banana Mana.leanne abridgedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06376384821880544731noreply@blogger.com