Livestock xchange. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/the-soya-moratorium-lives-on-but-what-will-fo/blog/51477/, The Dangers of Giving Up Meat | The Gist of Fit, Cowspiracy - los pedos de las vacas están destruyendo el planeta, All my movement & mobility Programs in One Place. United Nations Economic Programme, Vidal, John. "The Sixth Extinction". This is a great tool to have, but it needs one edit (at least): About halfway down, under “What can we do about it?” There is a statement that says, “A person who follows a vegan diet produces 50% less CO2, 1/11th oil, 1/13th water and 1/18th land compared to a meat eater.”, Well, we don’t produce oil, water or land, but I get the point. Water for Food. Discussion Guide Cowspiracy 4. www.influencefilmclub.com We believe a good documentary 22. "Grass-fed and Organic Beef: Production Costs and Breakeven Market Prices, 2008-2009". This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. "How Bad of a Greenhouse Gas is Methane? Free from Harm. Chapter 4, "Risk Assessment Evaluation for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations".Environmental Protection Agency. 29 November 2006, Walsh, Bryan. x 83.68 m.) = 5.27184 billion lbs. Oppenlander, Richard A. "Water Resources: Agricultural and Environmental Issues". January 2011, Gould, Skye & Friedman, Lauren F. "The countries where people eat the most meat". Cows produce (63 lbs. 326, 716 (2009). [section background_image=”https://www.heromovement.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/HERO-MOVEMENT-HERO-ACADEMY-BACKGROUND-compressor.png” text_color=”FFFFFF” background_color=”#3F3F3F”], Resources to help you eat, move & live better. The Guardian. February 2017(New), Bellantonio, Marisa, et al. – 45lbs of grain saved per day: Grain: multiply ounces of each meat consumed daily per person by the feed conversion factor for each animal. There’s plenty of reasons to be skeptical about global warming, not the least of which is that temperatures have declined or remained flat as CO2 has increased. –Cowspiracy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (New), "Meat and Animal Feed". This is a brilliant infographic! Time. Findings and recommendations for future farming. Feel free to use the share buttons to the left to send it out on Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon, Pinterest, Reddit, via email… Make paper aeroplanes out of it and throw them from the rooftop if you like. We’d love to use it when we’re giving out samples of our plant-based meats to help people clearly understand why we do what we do. 18 October 2013, Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose. Minneapolis, MN : Langdon Street, 2013. — which equals 20.36 pounds of CO2 Eq saved per day. More specifically, the film reveals how modern animal agriculture and factory farming is one of the most destructive industries facing the Earth today, and how many of the top environmental organisations in the world really don’t seem to want to talk about it…. "Protect nature for world economic security, warns UN biodiversity chief". Thanks for the comment Andrew, I do appreciate it! I want to print and post around my school 🙂. U.S. Energy Information. "Livestock' Long Shadow: environmental issues and options". International Energy Agency. November 2013. I think making it to netflix could make a massive difference, for sure. February 2011, Geetanjali, Chauhan, et al. "Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks 1990-2015". Environmental Research Letters 8 (2013) 034015 (8pp). Cowspiracy – Facts & Figures Cowspiracy. Surely if we want to take these problems seriously, we should focus our efforts on fixing one of the leading causes, rather than other issues that are having less of an impact? September, 2014, Zuraw, Lydia. The statistics used in the film were based on the best information we had available while producing the film. I will edit tit at some point though! "The Environmental Impact of a Meat-Based Diet". April 2012, Barnard, M.D, Neal. Vegetarian Guide, "Our Future Our Food. please. August 2013, "Executive Summary: Feed Supply". Vol. November 2009, Hyner, Christopher. January 2016 (New), Pauly, Daniel & Zeller, Dirk. Journal of Animal Science. Our rainforests and the species that inhabit them are about to disappear. of waste per day x 9.32 million dairy cows, [vi] Enough waste to cover, etc: based on 1 pound of waste per 1 square foot of land, “Animal farms produce as much manure as small and medium sized cities. 20 October 2015 (New), Zielinski, Sarah. Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, 2014 A.U.M. Of that 1.9 billion acres: 778 million acres of private land are used for livestock grazing (forest grazing, pasture grazing, and crop grazing), 345 million acres for feed crops, 230 million acres of public land are used for grazing livestock. Vol. Not like we shouldn’t have all begun moving towards a vegan diet like – yesterday. Minneapolis, MN : Langdon Street, 2013. The Guardian. Additionally, using any agricultural database regionally, nationally, or internationally, one can calculate that on average between 10 times and 100 times (in weight) more plant foods (vegetables, fruit, grain/nuts) on one acre of land than from animal products raised on that same acre of land, regardless of the level of fertility of that particular acre of land, presuming it is the same acre used for either product, animal or plant based. The rest is transformed into dry particles that travel up to 250 miles. Vegetarian Times. 19 June 2015. [ii] Although there are Cornell studies citing the water consumption of the US livestock industry at over 66 trillion gallons every year, we decided to go with a much more conservative figure of 34 trillion gallons based off the 2005 USGS figures putting the US total consumptive water use at 76 trillion gallons annually (non-consumptive is for thermoelectric and hydroelectric use that is typically returned directly back to its source immediately). "Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Print, "Food Facts: How Much Water Does it Take to Produce...?" March 31, 2011, Tilman, David & Clark, Michael. ), provides no consideration for increased indirect radiative effects of methane on atmospheric aerosols and particulate capture related to smog (Shindell et al. What are the facts? You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. August 2012, "Improving Child Nutrition: The achievable imperative for global progress". November 10, 2014, Tilman, David, et al. April 2009, Butler, Rhett A. Smithsonian.com. Nature Communications. Vegetarians should look away". = 514,836 g per acre, Beef can be produced at 205 pounds per acre, Beef protein content (raw) is 95.34 grams per pound, The protein content per acre of beef is 95.34 g x 205 lb. FAO Newsroom. Agricultural Waste Management Field Handbook. Science. “Cowspiracy may be the most important film made to inspire saving the planet.”. But there’s one that has influenced me way more than any of the above…. "Brazilian beef giant announces moratorium on rainforest beef". 515. (New). The World Bank, "Global livestock production systems". New York Times. "Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health". *This is the equivalent of over 6.611 million lbs. x 34.3 m.) = 1.029 billion lbs. "Amazon Destruction". Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board, Oppenlander, Dr. Richard. 607-615, Pala, Christopher. Science. November 10, 2014 (New), Tilman, David, et al. Rough average of 150 billion gallons CH4 globally per day. Thanks for your comment Doug! Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. "We Already Grow Enough Food for 10 Billion People...and Still Can't End Hunger”. July 2010, "Discard and bycatch in Shrimp trawl fisheries". "Water footprint of crop and animal products: a comparison". Marine Policy. By making the shift towards eating more locally sourced produce, and eating less factory farmed animals (and plants for that matter). Where Is It All Going?" Make the change towards a more plant based diet not just for your health, your performance, and out of compassion – make the change to save the planet you live on. Chapter 4: More and Cleaner Water”. August 2010, Sandy, Matt. "Industry Leaders, including Energy Companies, Forge Partnerships to Advance Climate Solutions and Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants". Global Agriculture. "Global catches, exploitation rates, and rebuilding options for sharks". "Beef: Diverting resources to environmentally destructive uses". One in every eight birds, one in every three amphibians, and one in every four mammals is facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the near future. The Allan Savory Approach Examined". "Cattle Ranching's Impact on the Rainforest". 18 October 2013 (new), "Infographic: How Much it Would Cost for the Entire Planet to Switch to Renewable Energy". In 1995, Hans Paerl, a marine ecologist from the University of North Carolina, reported that airborne ammonia had risen 25% each year since 1991 in Morehead City, 90 miles downwind of the hog belt.”, [v] -Dairy Cows, 120 lbs. October 2016 (New), Nuwer, Rachel. Limited Input Mode - Mehr als 1000 ungeprüfte Übersetzungen! A Film by A.U.M. November/December 2009 … Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Worldometers (New), "Visualizations of population growth". By the numbers: GHG emissions by livestock". Click here to join The Hero Academy get access to them and loads of other free resources! Jacobson, Michael F. “Six Arguments For a Greener Diet: How a More Plant-based Diet Could Save Your Health and the Environment. govtrack, Oppenlander, Richard. The Guardian. Number 73. Take Extinction Off Your Plate: a project of the Center for Biological Diversity. Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won’t Work. Hogan, C Michael. December 1995, "Agricultural Waste Management Field Handbook". "The Triple Whopper Environmental Impact of Global Meat Production". Scientific American, "Nutrient Pollution: The Problem". I’ve produced a couple before: one on the potential benefits of a plant based diet, and one on climate change. If you want to support this movement, aside from changing your diet, one of the best ways you can help make a change is to share information (like this Cowspiracy infographic) with as many people as possible. Vegetarian Times. March 2011, "Kings of the Carnivores. Shrink That Footprint, Scarborough, Peter, et al. The Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Nagoya, Japan, in October 2010 agreed that none of their goals from 2002 for lessening the rate of biodiversity loss were met. RCA Issue Bief #7. 607-615 (New), "NOAA-, EPA-supported scientists find average but large Gulf dead zone". Minneapolis, MN: Langdon Street, 2013. Comfortably Unaware Blog. I think it’s great for different people to work on the different parts of the problem. U.S. Energy Information Administration. The statement that animal agriculture is the primary driver of biodiversity loss and extinction of species is supported by many discussions and interviews with leading authors and scientists working for the Convention of Biodiversity and IUCN as well as publications regarding current biodiversity assessments as presented by Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the IUCN Red List, and the Global Environmental and Biodiversity Outlook.