Approximately 40% of the world 's land surface is used for the purpose of keeping all 7 billion of us to feed. The majority is not only to raise crops, vegetables but to support the pigs, chickens, and cows that we eventually eat (Walsh, 2013). You can get environmental pollution with raising animals for food. It is the biggest polluter of surface water and our land (PETA). Factory farm animal wastes pollute the soil and make the groundwater terrible. According to Dr. Rasby (2012), cows can drink water daily vary from 3 to 30 gallons per day depending on age, weight, stage of production and the environment. Also on PETA.org, they can drink up to 50 gallons of water per day or twice the amount in hot weather. To produce 1 pound of beef, we need more than 2,400 gallons of water, but producing 1 pound of tofu only requires 244 gallons of water. It takes almost 20 times less land to feed someone on a vegan diet than it does to feed a meat-eater since the crops are consumed directly instead of being used to feed animals. It can affect the life of others animal living in the forest since we need land to raise our
Approximately 40% of the world 's land surface is used for the purpose of keeping all 7 billion of us to feed. The majority is not only to raise crops, vegetables but to support the pigs, chickens, and cows that we eventually eat (Walsh, 2013). You can get environmental pollution with raising animals for food. It is the biggest polluter of surface water and our land (PETA). Factory farm animal wastes pollute the soil and make the groundwater terrible. According to Dr. Rasby (2012), cows can drink water daily vary from 3 to 30 gallons per day depending on age, weight, stage of production and the environment. Also on PETA.org, they can drink up to 50 gallons of water per day or twice the amount in hot weather. To produce 1 pound of beef, we need more than 2,400 gallons of water, but producing 1 pound of tofu only requires 244 gallons of water. It takes almost 20 times less land to feed someone on a vegan diet than it does to feed a meat-eater since the crops are consumed directly instead of being used to feed animals. It can affect the life of others animal living in the forest since we need land to raise our