12
Feb
Why Meat is the Best Worst Thing in the World
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Gist of the video:
- Humans keep a lot of animals for food. Around 23 billion chickens, 1.5 billion cattle, 1 billion pigs and 1 billion sheep every year.
- On a global scale, our meaty diet is literally eating up the planet.
- 83% of farmland is used for animal food production.
- That’s 26% of earth’s total land area.
- Livestock accounts for 27% of global freshwater consumption.
- Only a fraction of the nutrients from fodder end up in the meat.
- One kilogram of steak needs up to 25 kilos of grain and 15,000 liters of water.
- Meat just makes up 18% of our calories humans eat.
- We could nourish an additional 3.5 billion people if we can redirect the resources.
- 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions are created by the meat industry.
- Globally, we kill about 200 million animals every day.
- The majority of antibiotics we use are for livestock – up to 80% in the US.
- An average American throws out nearly a pound of food per day.
- Imagine, if animals were to think of humans, they would consider us killers of the planet.
“Humans are rampant genocidal maniacs who thrive on suffering.”
Original Video is from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxvQPzrg2Wg
Video Sources can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/kgssourcesmeat/startseite