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A “lagoon” from a pig farm in Comino

I know many vegetarians, and they all have different reasons for not eating meat. Some are vegetarian because of heath reasons, some just don’t like the taste and some, like my daughter for instance, ran into the PETA website and hasn’t touched meat in three years! But, there is also the fact that less meat eating makes for a healthier environment!

Did you know that…

…nearly 70% of the deforestation in the Amazon is a direct result of cattle ranching! These rainforests help maintain the climate by regulating the atmospheric gases and is the place that nearly 50% of the entire world’s species call home. But we are losing them to the meat market businesses for the almighty dollar.

…livestock contributes nearly 28% of the worldwide methane emissions that are a result of human activities! However, in Sterksel, Netherlands a group of farmers are doing their part and have come up with a solution! By cooking the manure from their pigs, they are able to capture the methane gas that emits from the manure and in turn, use the gas to make electricity! Brilliant!

…on these large scale factory farms the waste products from the animals are contained in what they call a “lagoon” (this will change your views of a tropical paradise!) Some of these lagoons are acres and acres of millions of gallons of waste water, with a high chance of rupturing. This could, and has, polluted our land water, our fish and other marine mammals! Some farmers ‘recycle’ this waste water through spray fields to water their crops with, which could be a great fertilizer, however, if it gets over watered, it can create a run off into our water supply, not to mention our atmosphere!

So there ya’ have it, three good environmental reasons that you should cut back on your meat consumption or you could always learn to recycle pig poo!

~Wind

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