When someone tells you to "go green" to help the environment. It's almost impossible to do so with the red meat on your plate. Factory farms contribute to a huge amount of the issues with our environment because the amount of waste these CAFO's produce is horrifying. Factory farms pollute waterways more than all other industrial sources combined.
People also say that starvation is a huge problem around the globe, and not enough people have food which is true. However, it takes 16 pounds of grain to produce 1 pound of meat. "More than 70 percent of the grain and cereals that we grow in this country are fed to farmed animals." By supporting the Factory Farming industry you are taking away grain from people in order to feed it to the animals that will then be used for your food.
"It takes more than 11 times as much fossil fuel to make one calorie from animal protein as it does to make one calorie from plant protein."
"It takes more than 2,400 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of meat, while growing 1 pound of wheat only requires 25 gallons."
"Animals raised for food in the U.S. produce far more excrement than the entire U.S. human population, roughly 89,000 pounds per second, all without the benefit of waste-treatment systems"
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/meat-wastes-natural-resources/#ixzz2sNAOv8cK
People also say that starvation is a huge problem around the globe, and not enough people have food which is true. However, it takes 16 pounds of grain to produce 1 pound of meat. "More than 70 percent of the grain and cereals that we grow in this country are fed to farmed animals." By supporting the Factory Farming industry you are taking away grain from people in order to feed it to the animals that will then be used for your food.
"It takes more than 11 times as much fossil fuel to make one calorie from animal protein as it does to make one calorie from plant protein."
"It takes more than 2,400 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of meat, while growing 1 pound of wheat only requires 25 gallons."
"Animals raised for food in the U.S. produce far more excrement than the entire U.S. human population, roughly 89,000 pounds per second, all without the benefit of waste-treatment systems"
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/meat-wastes-natural-resources/#ixzz2sNAOv8cK