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Destruction of forests and wild life habitats are massively caused by deforestation and land clearance to grow Farm Animal feeds. 80 percent of all Soy grown in the world is GMO animal feed.
The world could be fed on 1/3 of the agricultural land currently used to grow farm animal crop food.
70 percent of all agricultural land in the world is used to grow farm animal food.
Wildlife extinction and decline...and it is clear that animal agriculture is the major cause of this due to habitat destructions....due to expanding land taken to grow farm animal feeds. 70 percent of the world USABLE agricultural land...which is declining due to desertification caused mostly by animal agriculture...is used to grow farm animal feed. 1/3 of this land could feed the world on a vegan diet of course as it is inefficient to process so many plants as well as water to obtain the same nutrient level. Excretions pollute the land water and air additionally of course. http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/major-causes-of-decline-in-wildlife-populations-worldwide.html Mammal, bird, reptile, fish, and amphibian populations have declined by 52% during the last 4 decades http://www.fao.org/Newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/index.html
Icebergs are retreating, glaciers, deserts expanding, sealife massively declined more than halved in the past 40 years, the barrier reef practically dead due to pollution whales all fish now contain plastics and mercury in their flesh so the fish oil supplements are in fact now unhealthy.
British Wild Life has declined by 70 percent in the last 40 years.
"Shocking declines in bird numbers show British wildlife is 'in serious trouble'
Pesticides, hedgerows being ripped up and the intensification of farming have contributed to a 55 per cent fall in farmland birds since 1970, a Government report says"
Of course the EXOTIC attractive animals like elephants and lions get more attention...even horses...but in the UK where I live the SCOTTISH WILDCAT is already extinct in my lifetime with NO outcries as well as the TURTLE DOVE and PARTRIDGE and the HEDGEHOG small mammal is now in Sanctuaries having declined by 30 million to only 1 million today in my lifetime ! PESTICIDES on farm fields growing animal food being the major cause ! now the same PROBLEM arises when some people say oooh I have seen a hedgehog in my garden ! of course that leads people to think ooh so it is ok as in my backyard ! but the overall national situation is dire ! in France it is now illegal to pick up snails in the wild ! not that they exist as pesticides and chemicals have killed them ! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/06/hedgehogs-now-a-rare-garden-sight-as-british-populations-continue-to-decline Now not just PESTICIDES and FERTILISER chemicals are to blame but mostly...70 percent of urban front gardens even rear gardens in the uk are now PAVED ! meaning hedgehogs are driven out by our human concreting which also adds to the extra WATER DRAINAGE problems and lack of plant air cleaning as no grass of course. The problem being that people are small minded and think only of their small area rather than effect on the ecosystem and planet as a whole and associated global issues. I personally think every inch of concrete adds to climate change lol...trying some humour as walking in brick concrete cities is far hotter due to heat reflected off concrete and stone more than grass and vegetation which absorb heat and water. I do not see any Official estimates of this phenomena of course lol ...but do see figures of 70 percent more concreting over and loss of grassland in urban areas in the name of WEED CONTROL lol
River and even more so lakes and Seas and Oceans are full of animal agriculture run offs polluting it of course.
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http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/
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Animal agriculture contributes to species extinction in many ways. In addition to the monumental habitat destruction caused by clearing forests and converting land to grow feed crops and for animal grazing, predators and "competition" species are frequently targeted andhunted because of a perceived threat to livestock profits. The widespread use of pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers used in the production of feed crops often interferes with the reproductive systems of animals and poison waterways. The overexploitation of wild species through commercial fishing, bushmeat trade as well as animal agriculture’s impact on climate change, all contribute to global depletion of species and resources. [XIX]
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Minneapolis, MN: Langdon Street, 2013. Print.
The US lower 48 states represents 1.9 billion acres. 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.
"Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars, UN report warns". UN News Centre. 29 November 2006
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This doesn’t include the animals raised outside of USDA jurisdiction or in backyards, or the billions of fish raised in aquaculture settings in the US. [v]
"Agricultural Waste Characteristics". Agricultural Waste Management Field Handbook. USDA. Chapter 4
"Risk Assessment Evaluation for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations".Environmental Protection Agency. 2004
"Animal Agriculture: Waste Management Practices". United States General Accounting Office. July 1999
-Dairy Cows, 120 lbs. of waste per day x 9.32 million dairy cows
-Cows, 63 lbs. of waste per day x 83.68 million cows
-Calves, 30 lbs. of waste per day x 34.3 million calves
-Pigs, 14 lbs. of waste per day x 74 million pigs
-Sheep and Goats, 5 lbs. of waste per day x 7.84 million sheep and goats
-Turkeys, .87 lbs. of waster per day x 77 million turkeys
-Broiler Chickens, .50 lbs. of waste per day x 1.74 billion broiler chickens
-Laying Hens, .25 lbs. of waster per day x 350.7 million laying hens
*pigs are raised twice per year, (a total of 148.3 million per year) so on any given day in the United States there are about 74 million pigs.
*turkeys are raised three times per year (a total of 233 million per year) so on any given day in the United States there are 77 million turkeys.
*broiler chickens are raised 5 times per year, (a total of 8.69 billion per year) so any given day there are1.74 billion broiler chickens.
Dairy Cows produce (120 lbs. x 9.32 m.) = 1.1184 billion lbs.
Cows produce (63 lbs. x 83.68 m.) = 5.27184 billion lbs.
Calves produce (30 lbs. x 34.3 m.) = 1.029 billion lbs.
Pigs produce (14 lbs. x 74.0 m.) = 1.036 billion lbs.
Sheep and Goats produce (5 lbs. x 7.84 m.) = 39.2 million lbs.
Turkeys produce (.87 lbs. x 77.0 m.) = 66.99 million lbs.
Broiler Chickens produce (.5 x 1.74 b.) = 870 million lbs.
Laying Hens produce (.25 x 350.7 m.) = 87.675 million lbs.
*Total manure produced in one day is 9.519105 billion lbs.
*Total manure produced in one year is 3.475 trillion lbs.
*This is the equivalent of over 6.611 million lbs. per minute. (This does not include any animal raised outside of USDA Jurisdiction, backyards or fish raised for aquaculture)
based off 1lb of waste per 1sqft at 1.4 billion tons.
*Total manure produced in one year is 3.475 trillion lbs. (From above calculation.)
US Livestock produce 335 million tons of “dry matter” per year.
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Now. I think like most vegans that IGNORANCE is why anyone doesn't make CHANGES needed to anything in our lives. I like most was IGNORANT of even the way cows milk didn't just flow on tap without producing babies that were taken away AT ONCE and KILLED ! or that male baby chickens are ground up ALIVE as part of the EGG industry ! this is barbaric ! but when you don't realise...that animals bred today are FREAKS that suffer pain in chests and legs as part of the norm of their aweful purpose of existence we human farmers have done to get more money out of these verbally handicapped living creatures...well...ignorance about WE DONT NEED THEM AS FOOD even as it is POISONING us...
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Webpage created start date 12th Feb 2017. It doesn't matter what we think most people currently think or do...if we think we can do something good even if we think it small and insignificant...it makes a difference. As the fairy queen said to Frodo in the Lord of the Rings...even the smallest person in the world can make a difference. ONE makes a difference. of about 11 thousand killed animals in 1 human lifetime, just for FOOD ! Totally unnecessarily. Just to put a FIGURE to what 1 PERSON can achieve ! SUCCESS ! Every time we refuse to buy a dead animal product we affect the future avoidable deaths of those bred in the future. Vote with our Wallets and Demand Non Animal, Healthy, Natural Food as much as possible. NON (MURDERED) ANIMAL. Vegan.