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· @teamsteem ·
$9.10
I think the problem is in part ignorance and also people not acting in accord with what they know. 

- 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. ([United Nation](http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=17076#.WPIC62dFfIV))

- As many as 40% (63 billion pounds) of fish caught globally every year are discarded.

- Animal agriculture is responsible for up to 91% of Amazon destruction.

- The leading causes of rainforest destruction are livestock and feedcrops.

- Ten thousand years ago, 99% of biomass (i.e. zoomass) was wild animals. Today, humans and the animals that we raise as food make up 98% of the zoomass.

- 80% of antibiotic sold in the US are for livestock.

- 82% of starving children live in countries where food is fed to animals, and the animals are eaten by western countries.

- 1.5 acres can produce 37,000 pounds of plant-based food.
- 1.5 acres can produce 375 pounds of beef.

- [Cowspiracy](http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/) (It's on Netflix and its director is Leonardo Dicaprio)
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@reebo ·
$1.54
Wow, looks like you got your talking points from the UN. They are such noted experts that never embellish their statistics or sources of information. The attention grabbing headline here is how people with no scientific background, no statistical background, and no practical experience in the real world have the solutions for everybody's problems. Science is not decisions by conciseness or by feel good sentiments. It is based on hard facts that can be proved with empirical data. Sometimes that data can be interpreted differently, but is should always be based on the facts. Green Peace and Hippies with Agendas are not solid unbiased sources of information when evaluating these issues. Emotions need to be taken out of the picture and we need solid facts put into place. The biggest problem we are dealing with here is a lack of education when confronting each of these problems. Much of agriculture  is being practiced with grossly outdated techniques. If you only get 375 lbs or beef from 1.5 acres of land, you are truly a shitty farmer. And if you can only produce 37,000 lbs of plant based food from 1.5 acres, you are again a really shitty farmer. Newer approaches are far more productive. The best approaches are integrated and involve plants/animals/fungus/bacteria/micro rhizomes and the plethora of other organisms working in concert.  Take aquaculture for example. With modern techniques, plants, animals and other supporting bio fauna are grown in harmony with astonishing results. By the way, our depleted CO2  levels are actually responsible for much of our desertification. That's right, increased CO2 levels actually make plants much more tolerant of lower levels of moisture. The plants need less stomata for respiration and are therefore more tolerant of drier conditions.  Funny how our little snowflake environmentalist-know-nothings are ignorant of how things really work. 
Granted, I acknowledge that this little response is rambling, but I just wanted to point out that most of what is taken as religious-environmentalist-zeal is simply not so. Get a real education, something more than the shitty excuse you find for an education in most universities. Get some practical experience, learn what is real science, and understand that real science has nothing to do with feel good pole taking conciseness among "experts". Maybe  you can do some actual good in this world instead of just virtue signalling.
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@teamsteem · (edited)
$0.17
Okay, you sure provide no link to anything but my sources are very bad because you said so. This make no sense. 

The numbers I provided are backed up by empirical fact for the most part but you chose not to address most of them.
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@kyriacos ·
More info here my friend :)

<h2><a href="https://steemit.com/health/@kyriacos/you-can-t-be-a-vegetarian">You Can't be A Vegetarian</a></h2>
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@eddiebxxxx ·
So what have i been for 5 years then?
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@govegan ·
read this guys article before jumping on this one and it's not woth reading he doesn't even know the difference between a vegan and a vegetarian lol
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@frozentoast · (edited)
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So what is "real science"? Your response perhaps, in which you denounce all points and sources presented above and counter with a couple finds of your own, namely that most people are "shitty farmers" and  that plants will cope with increased CO2 levels?  Also, are you really arguing that CO2 levels are are depleting? They're definitely not. If you're going to ramble and throw some fancy words in, at least get your story straight.

Real science in the case of climate research is not getting some practical experience and talking shit about experts by trusting your gut. It's amassing and analyzing fairly gathered empirical data, weighing their support for central hypotheses and thereby coming to conclusions as objectively as possible, which can then gain support and result in a scientific consensus.

Evidence such as this: https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
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@kingzeus · (edited)
may God bless you, since common sense seems evasive these days people sit at home and write up statistics while the vegan community raise placards based on soo many inaccurate statistics, i grew up animal/plant farming tbh iv come to realize a lot of people take this animal rights thing toooooooooo far. Their grandparents lived longer, healthier and still practiced a lot of these so called "crude" agriculture that brought them to existence. vegans still visit the zoos and take pictures why don't they advocate for the animals being returned to the wild? its educative and entertaining and fun to pay to visit caged animals and throw peanuts at the elephants in captivity....hypocrites. @reebo
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@govegan ·
Vegans visit zoos and take pictures??? That's hilarious! hahaha... where did you find that info? I would love to read that article. I agree with you though, 58 billion animals, not including fish get killed each year because we humans like the flavour. I have no idea what all the fuss is about, it's just 58 billion.
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@eco-alex ·
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The quality of life of an animal comes before CO2, period! Especially when its billions of them to try to feed an ever growing population. People eat TOO much eat in many developed countries. There is no balance  and its not even needed. In many countries, like India for example, many families eat meat once a week and then enjoy amazing vegetarian food the rest of the week.. 

Then also they REALLY enjoy that meat WAY more than you would if you ate it every day.. And guess what, 600% less animals had to die!
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@baerdric ·
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Except that everywhere you say "animal agriculture", the correct term is "Grain agriculture to feed CAFO animals". That same soy and corn land, returned to pasture, would correct almost everything else you mention.  

The way to make that happen is not to stop eating meat, that just makes you not a customer and so not a concern.

The functional, non-totalitarian way is for individuals to buy local, grass fed, humanely slaughtered animal foods. That's what will decrease the CAFOS, restore the soil, replenish desertified lands (which are now only kept in crops by oil based fertilizer and irrigation), end the need for antibiotics, reduce the dependance on 3rd world sources (although that might drive them even deeper into poverty), and produce healthier food for everyone. 

People like Saladin and Savory are already making this happen, but the religion of veganism just condemns them and ignores the good they are doing.  Because feelings. And famous actors.
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@teamsteem ·
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Except it takes more grain to feed the animal we eat than if we ate the grain we fed the animal and that most of the amazon deforestation has happen because of the grain agriculture needed to feed the animal we eat.  

> Livestock now use 30 percent of the earth’s entire land surface, mostly permanent pasture but also including 33 percent of the global arable land used to producing feed for livestock, the report notes. As forests are cleared to create new pastures, it is a major driver of deforestation, especially in Latin America where, for example, some 70 percent of former forests in the Amazon have been turned over to grazing.

This has nothing to do between you and me. Saladin and Savory have been rebutted for obvious reasons. 

Source: [FAO](http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/News/2006/1000448/index.html)
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@baerdric ·
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Since the only thing I said about grain is to stop using it, I don't know what you are talking about. You might not be considering the benefits of a diverse pasture land. 

Saladin and Savory are still producing verifiable results so I guess someone needs to step up the rebutting. They better hurry because thousands of other folks are duplicating the results on their own lands.
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@govegan ·
@teamsteem thank you!
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@mady27 ·
sir you are absoluely   right :)
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