Why Vegans are saving the earth! (Featuring @stormblaze as new author)

It is time today to give an audience to the younger generation. @stormblaze is a young guy who loves Mathematics!
Being a mathematics loving person myself, I think it is worth the read as he makes a few good points!

Please have a look at his previous posts below and if you like please upvote his older posts as well as follow him!

Are we using the wrong numbering system? Introducing base 12 numbering system
Is The Sum Of All Natural Numbers = -1/12?
Is the sum of all natural numbers = -1/12? Part Two

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Do you like a the smell of a thick sizzling steak on the BBQ? Do you like a refreshing tall glass of milk or a nice grilled cheese sandwich! Unfortunately this delicious treats comes at a great cost for our planet!

First of all most of us already know why eating animal products contribute to global warming and climate change, but do we truly know how much damage it causes to the planet! For this post we will only talk about cattle and not other livestock. Now for those who do not know how this happens well here is a quick crash course. Cows in particular produce methane gas in their digestive system. Methane gas is a greenhouse gas like CO2 but it has more catastrophic effect than CO2. On the planet. 1kg methane gas is equal to 2300 kg of CO2.

How bad is this type of pollution?

Research has shown that a cow can release on average around 70 to 120 kg of methane gas a year. There is approximately 1.5 Billion cows on our planet for all kinds of purposes. All of these cows produce around 2.8 billion metric tons of CO2!

But not only does livestock captivation cause air pollution, it causes another problem: Destruction of natural habitats! Farms take allot of space, especially cattle and dairy farms! Livestock uses around 33% of earth’s land surface. Allot of forests with masses of trees and other plants and animals became endangered and extinct because of this loss of land!

Lastly this amount of livestock uses a lot of water! This numbers depend on the size, purpose (do they produce milk, are they for shows etc..) temperature of farm ect. ect. They can consume around 13 - 136 liters of water a day!

What can you do to help reduce damage?

This is a sensitive topic because eating meat and using dairy products is an essential part of most cultures on the planet. We just can not simply say no more dairy or meat consumption for humans! That will be devastating for all countries and cultures around the world! But we can make a change without being so radical. In short, here is how you can help:

1. Reduce your meat and dairy intake!

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1. Join the meat free monday movement!

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1. Support environmental conservation!

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This is something that was interesting for me to see! I did not made this post to make animal product users to feel bad or offend anyone. Do you use allot of animal products? Do not forget to upvote and leave a comment below and tell me what you think?

And as always
Thanks for reading!

Note :

I want to thank @jacor for featuring me, please read his wonderfull articles here

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