Sustainability Why Go Vegan? Quick Stats → → a great amount of resources 70% of the crops grown go to feeding livestock. is needed to raise animals for → Emily Dulieu, Kennedy Gardner, Beyza Gedemenli, & Niko Sidou 7 footbal fields of land are bulldozed those who eat meat,. If more people every minute to create more room for went vegan, the food used for farmed animals Trophic Advantage → animals could go to feed the it takes 100 to 200 times more water to → hungry. vegans receive the highest raise a pound of beef than it does to → amount of energy from their food raise a pound of plant food. the burning of fossil fuels for → → as one moves higher up the by switching to a vegan diet you can farm machinery is a great food chain, the more energy is essentially cut your carbon footprint in contributor to global warming lost as heat half → → deforestation due to expansion vegans are second in the food (McCarthy, 2016) of pasture land... 80% of land cut chain above primary producers (Smith & Smith, 2015) down in the Amazon is used for The diagram above shows two food pyramids comparing the Standard cattle pastures American Diet and the Growing Living Alternative Diet → cattle produce methane, a greenhouse gas, which is 20 times Why be SAD when you can be GLAD more potent than CO2 → → the Standard American Diet (SAD) consists of consumption of high meat and animal there is a lot of deforestation, products with processed food and low fruits and vegetables → overfishing, and pollution that are the Vegan/Growing Living Alternative Diet (GLAD) consists of consumption of high caused by the meat and fish vegetables and fruits with no meat or animal products. industries (Nordqvist, 2017) → planting more plants and crops The figure above shows that diets high in meat consumption have the highest carbon footprint (3.3 leads to a richer soil Is it a mis-steak? Conclusion tons of CO2 equivalent) while a vegan diet has the (Scarborough, 2014) lowest carbon footprint (1.5 tons of CO2 equivalent). Is veganism always the way to go? In conclusion, due to many resources Website:s → being involved in raising farm animals, Primary Sources: McCarthy J. 9 Ways Veganism Is Helping the may result in malnutrition as the vegan diet livestock contributing to high methane Scarborough P, Appleby PN, Mizdrak A, Briggs ADM, Travis RC, Planet. Global Citizen. [accessed 2017 Oct 31]. doesn’t always provide adequate amounts of Bradbury KE, Key TJ. Dietary greenhouse gas emissions of https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/9-reason levels and overall high emissions of meat-eaters, fish-eaters, vegetarians and vegans in the UK. s-why-veganism-can-save-the-world/ nutrients-may need to supplement with vitamins CO2e, the Standard American Diet is Climatic Change. 2014;125(2):179–192. Standard American Diet, n.d.: → vegan diets rely heavily on soy which has a less sustainable than the Vegan diet. Smith TM, Smith RL. Elements of Ecology. 9th ed. Boston: Pearson
Why Go Vegan? Quick Stats → → a Great Amount of Resources 70% of the Crops Grown Go to Feeding Livestock
