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Please watch the video, “How to Convert a Meat-Eater to Veganism” below, made specifically to discredit the argument that meat consumption causes global warming. This individual actually believes that the Earth can sustain the ridiculous number of cows required to satiate human meat consumption, by “harvesting” energy from the methane. Perhaps this would be possible, IF there were only 2 billion human carnivores on the planet & that number NEVER elevated. With 7 billion humans producing grain at an extreme rate, much of which goes to over 1.5 BILLION cows,(which ooze “seepage” into our environment/water sources & pump an insane level of methane into the atmosphere) we don’t quite have the time or space to transform half of the planet into a “cow-sludge” cesspool, which would solve absolutely nothing, anyway. Human technology will not find a way to “terraform” the entire planet with cow refuse cesspools on every street corner, yet still stave off an additional rise in global temperature, nor will it invent a magical way to halt the depletion of all “resources” to sustain the meat/dairy industry. This world was never meant to sustain 1 billion cows.

Since this man is an intelligent individual, let us hope that he will get a grip on reality. There were only a few hundred thousand wolves on the entire north American continent prior to European invasion. What would lead anyone to believe there are supposed to be over 1 billion cows on the entire planet? It amazes me how so many “educated” people are so incredibly blinded by their desire for an excuse that they will dispute simple mathematics, generate outlandish arguments in contention with what they already know to be true & ignore what scientists around the world have been warning us about, all along.

My message for this individual:

Let us place this out on the table, shall we? I do not attack meat eaters. I try to educate, but this truly is a foul attempt to generate “sympathy to the meat-eaters’ plight” so I will be blunt. At the very least, be honest with us, if not, yourself. You simply do not care enough about the fact that you are contributing to human starvation, torturing animals, or leading life on this planet to 90+% global extinction. None of that is as important to you as the flavor of flesh & your current comfort. It is just that simple, so please stop inventing excuses that hold no credibility.

18,000 children per day alone, die from starvation due to the factory farming industry. It requires a 50 to 1 grain ratio to feed one cow, as opposed to one full grown human & obviously, since we are feeding livestock roughly half of ALL grains grown by humans in order to sustain the demand, we are knowingly starving human beings. Roughly 40,000 humans die of starvation, each & every day, in total. If you didn’t know, now you do, so claiming ignorance in regard to the subject is no longer an option.

Many dairy cows, due to the vast amounts of hormones(quite necessary to sustain the demand without current global epidemic) which cause them to produce an unnatural 12-15 gallons of milk per day, require anywhere from 25-50 gallons of drinking water. 1 in 6 human beings go without clean or safe drinking water & roughly 4000 children die from diseases born of unclean water sources(generally polluted by animal farming) every day. In March of 2010, the United Nation reported that dirty water kills more people than war(see link HERE). This is actually an understatement.

To quote the World Food Programme(WFP) word for word, in regard to the main cause for world hunger:

Over-exploitation of environment – “Poor farming practices, deforestation, overcropping and overgrazing are exhausting the Earth’s fertility and spreading the roots of hunger. Increasingly, the world’s fertile farmland is under threat from erosion, salination and desertification.”

As you already know, methane is a vastly more lethal greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Do you honestly believe that 1 billion cows, generating as much in greenhouse gas effect daily as 1 billion SUV’s driving over 30 straight miles, is not the cause for the global 1 degree temperature rise in only the past 30 years? Do you even realize that the Northwest Passage is now navigable by sailing vessels during the summer months?

Have you truly missed the “memo” in regard to how much of our rain-forests are being torn down to keep up with the demands of meat production? Even NASA reports via “birds-eye” satellite view that the effects are not only devastatingly alarming, but accelerating, as well. Areas the size of small countries have been wiped clean in just a few short years since the turn of the century. In the Brazilian Amazon, between May of 2000 & August of 2006, nearly 150,000 square kilometers of forest(larger than Greece) was wiped clean, and the process has only become more catastrophic.

What do you believe that your grandchildren would say to you, given the opportunity, whilst they watch the world burn? What argument will be left when all topsoil is memory & there isn’t a tree to be found in any former rain-forest to generate oxygen for all life on Earth & on a side note, when were you planning on awakening from your “global warming denial” slumber? You are only fooling yourself & adding another thread to the noose that is already about our posterity’s throat.

Anthony Damiano
Founder of AELLA