Facts

Some tasty tidbits to enlighten your meat-free cocktail party conversation:

  • 60% of all mammals on Earth are animals raised for food. (Livekindly.org)

  • Humans and Big Ag Livestock now account for 96% of mammal biomass. (National Academy of Sciences, via Ecowatch.com)

Okay, so we could all just stop here and read J.S. Foer’s Book, or at least go to the website, but we’re on on roll, so –

  • Globally, humans use 59 percent of all the land capable of growing crops to grow food for livestock.

  • One-third of all the fresh water that humans use goes to livestock, while only about one-thirtieth is used in homes.

  • Seventy percent of the antibiotics produced globally are used for livestock, weakening the effectiveness of antibiotics to treat human diseases.

“The environmental group Mighty Earth released a 2017 report that identified Tyson Foods, one of America’s largest chicken producers, as a “dominant” contributor to the pollution crisis. Similarly, another report from Environment America alleged that Tyson is responsible for dumping more toxic pollutants into our waterways than companies like ExxonMobil and Dow Chemical.”

More than Exxon and Dow – cluck, cluck, Tyson.

  • Each day you leave meat off your plate, reduces your carbon footprint by over 8 pounds. We aren’t math whizzes, but counting on our wings and hooves, that works out to … 416 pounds of carbon/per year.

  • If the entire U.S. goes vegan for just one day a week, that’s the equivalent of not driving 91 billion miles, or taking 7.6 million cars off the road.

  • Skipping meat one day a week = not driving for a month.

  • If everyone in the US didn’t eat meat for one day a week for a year, that’s 136.1 billion pounds of carbon.