“Although cattle grazing in the West has polluted more water, eroded more topsoil, killed more fish, displaced more wildlife, and destroyed more vegetation than any other land use, the American public pays ranchers to do it!” -Ted Williams, environmental author Are you one of the “payers”? No? Think again – do you even eat beef or chicken? If you’ve been following some of my last few blog entries, you now know that big greedy animal farms are mis-treating farm animals before and during slaughter. You will also know that they are partially the cause why…
wild animals are killed, sometimes to to the point of extinction!
Now I am going to introduce to you big animal-farms’ supporter and friend: The Big Pharma (pharmaceutical companies)
Who’s Hurting & Damaging our Environment?
Disposal of animal waste which are NOT regulated by the FDA nor the American
government has contributed to the DEAD ZONE where no marine animal has been able to survive. See pics of the DEAD ZONE: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/dead_zone.html
Already the rivers in Colorado are “drying up”. (Some rivers of China too.)
Fact: Only 1% of the world’s natural waters (including lakes, rivers and oceans) are drinkable? ONLY 1%!
In time to come, rivers and oceans will be dry because a lot of water is channelled to animal farms. (Compare North Pole’s glaciers in 1999 and those you see now.)
In big animal-farms, how much water is wasted for cattle rearing and slaughtering?
Scientific American (published in the February 2001 by Peter H. Gleick) states that “Growing a pound of corn can take between 100 and 250 gallons of water…But growing the grain to produce a pound of beef can require between 2000 and 8500 gallons.” That is a startling difference!
There are 56 pounds of corn (by the way, cows’ natural diet is really grass, not corn) in a bushel, so you will need around 2,800 pounds of corn to produce an animal that weighs 1,250 to 1,350 pounds. How much water is required to produce 56 pounds of corn?
The amount of water needed to ‘grow grass’ would be FAR LESSER if cattles were free-ranging and feed on grass! This explains why some reports much lesser water used for rearing Angus Cows. (Not to mention you rarely get sick meat with free-ranging beef as compared to having meat from cattle that have limiting confined space to even exercise and are force-fed corn.)
All in all, it takes about 12,009 gallons of water to produce just a pound of beef derived from cattle-jails (expenses of cow-rearing…expenses to keeping cattle [ineffectively] clean, costs of steroids, hay to feed , money to cover “loss”according to number of cattle deaths, etc)! Some other environmentalists put the figure closer to 24,000 gallons for animal farms that wash cattles more often due to constant flies flying around these poor animals.
| Putting water use info into perspective (Thanks to Vegesource.com for this information) If you shower each day for 7 minutes, using a shower with a flow rate of 2 gallons per minute, you are using 14 gallons of water per day (7 minutes x 2 gallons), or 98 gallons per week. Rounding that up to 100 gallons per week, in 52 weeks you would be using 5,200 gallons of water per year to take a daily shower. Comparing 5,200 gallons of water used by taking a 7 minute shower every day for a year, to the 5,214 gallons of water it takes to produce a pound of beef (using the estimate noted by water specialists at the University of California, noted above), you realize that in California today, you can save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you will save by not showering for a year. According to the calculations of the celebrated Dr. Pimentel of Cornell, you could go two years without a shower and still not save as much water as you would by not eating one pound of beef! |
Also many fish have become unsafe for human consumption due to the mercury they ingest. Where do you think the mercury comes from?
They are largely disposed off by factories that are unethical enough not to bother paying for proper “waste” disposal!
Why don’t they bother? To save money! ‘Frugal’ to a fault!
When in the ‘end’ (probably 20 to 50 years from now or earlier) all that will be left of this world is DESERTS. All animals and living creatures will be left dying with over-stocked genetically-modified foods and no water. Humans getting extinct. Why don’t big greedy animal farms and pharmaceutical companies that coming – DOOM?
Is that the kind of world you want to leave to your children, grandchildren and their descendants in?
Many of these changes are NOT reversible!
SDweathers (via Twitter) tweeted a link: Pharmaceuticals sold in Sweden Cause Serious Environmental Harm in India http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205083522.htm
“What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.” – David Attenborough”
Pesticides are used on non-organic crops (that feed big farm-readered animals) kill insects. It is anyone’s guess if chemical pesticides on vegetables is ever safe for consumption over the long run. (It’s now been proven that the mad cows’ disease mutated genes take as long as 4 to 5 years to…. mutate.)
Death by such disease implications are NOT swift. Many get to suffer for months before they succumb to death! (Tell Obama to Transform Government’s Approach to Regulating Pesticides)
I was wondering why would insects need to be killed if only 1 of these is true:
- #1 plants and vegetables have natural pesticides in them that do the job of warding off most beetles
- #2 plants eaten up by swarms of locusts regrow very quickly to replace what’s been eaten
| From: http://www.cropchoice.com/leadstryagissues013107.html Michael Pollan is the author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,”: factory farming no longer uses organic fertilizer (cow manure and compost) to maintain the highly complex ecology of nutrient-rich topsoil. Instead, it relies on an energy-intensive process of producing nitrogen-rich fertilizer from oil and cattle feed from natural gas. It requires about 10 calories of oil energy to produce every calorie of corn grown in the United States. Meanwhile the process, combining nitrogen with toxic chemical weedkillers, is literally destroying the soil that our food grows in. The chemically-enhanced crops we grow in monoculture, like corn, are sucking all the nutrients out of the topsoil, turning it into dust. |
It is also interesting to note that even if we eat a lot of pesticide-infected vegetables and fruits, the effect of damage to the environment won’t still be as damnifying as eating meat.
More Damage by Big Greedy Animal Farms
Funny as it sounds, animal farms produce a lot of fart gas containing methane, that destroys the outer layer/zone that protects out Earth. It makes people (and animals) in confined areas sick!
There’s another gas that’s worse than methane and is usually in high concentration (again in big greedy animal farms) than methane, that’s responsible for global warming.
That’s what big greedy animal farms do to hurt the environment. What about pharmaceutical companies?
Currently NOTHING is done to prevent expired drugs from being dumped into our water resources.
Harmful fluoride is still poured into our water-supply. (Fluoride may be good for teeth as dentists will make you believe but it is poison inside our bodies.) Source: http://www.fluoridealert.org
FDA keeps mum about lead found in children’s face paint and cosmetics, etc.
Source: http://safecosmetics.live.radicaldesigns.org/article.php?id=401
Not to mention there’s no more evidence that prescription drugs and treatments like chemotherapy for Aids and Cancer do not work.
“Toxicity of AZT (Chemotherapy) is very high. Since AZT cannot distinguish infected from uninfected cells and only 1 in 500 T-Cells is ever infected, it kills 499 uninfected T-Cells for every infected one T-Cell (killed). – virologist and scientist Peter Duesberg”
This is to say, every time 1 infected T-cell is successfully destroyed, 499 healthy uninfected T-cells get ‘killed’. This greatly weakens the human body’s immunity that it needs to fight cancer! The result is detoriating health and possible excruciating death!
In other words, chemotherapies actually do more harm than good!
This is also best to describe the big animal farms who use 70% of the world’s crop to feed less than 50% of the world population. This leaves the rest poor and starving!
If you think that animal activists are trying to find all ways to stop meat (or drugs) from being sold/distributed, may be you are right. But the real reason is because people know that truths are being hidden from them, that gives me “no other choice” but to either “live and suffer” or “wait for a painful death” (due to poor health and treatments that don’t work).
When a doctor is able to make a lot of money by providing continual treatments because the patient is not cured, it is very easy for him/her to say there’s no cure for many “common diseases”.
One of my Chinese childhood friend died of “experimental cancer treatments” (he died within 2.5 years) – he was only 25. And also of my own personal experience with plant-based (fruits and vegetables) food (blogged previously) I had came to suggest a non-meat diet (for myself, my brother and his kids, etc). I will perhaps start a photo gallery of my own “disease” very soon to prove whether my new plant-based diet is any effective.
Do we really need meat and drugs to be healthy? Can prescription drugs even cure diseases instead of just “controlling” the symptoms?
I see a strong connection between animal farms and pharmaceutical companies. both are responsible for damaging and polluting our environment and the very air we breath. Both have no care to animal welfare nor to the state of your health. (Animal shelters are sometimes “forced” to send stray or abandoned pets to pharmaceutical companies for laboratory testing. Source: Nodowners.org )
Big Greedy Corporate-Owned Animal Farms & Pharmaceuticals are United Friends in Global Environmental Damage!
Please help to re-build what Mother Nature provided us for free! Encourage others to earn their money MINDFULLY by not killing animals and by donating to associations who disseminate the natural cures for major diseases!
Rearing animals just for their dead flesh not only waste a lot of resources like water, hurts our bodies, harms our health – animals reared on a grand large scale contribute to global warming that will eventually destroy every living being on this planet. Should we allow global warming to continue? Or should we be doing a small part to save the people, our children and the earth we live on?
There are many things that YOU can do to slow down or prevent global warming and stop further animal cruelty. Being a vegetarian is one of them. (Going VEGETARIAN not only saves many animals, the greens and fruits you eat boost your health naturally!)
You can also sign the global petition to push for the FDA (USA) to be reviewed and reformed, so that lesser dangerous foods and products (and pharmaceutical drugs) get pushed to the public.
Other related information you may be interested in:
Sierra Club wrote “The Rapsheet on Animal Factories” draws a vivid portrait of the environmental violations caused by factory farms, many of which are owned by some of America’s largest agricultural corporations, including ConAgra , Tyson Foods , Cargill and Smithfield Farms.
- Why going meatless saves the planet
- Real case studies of Pesticides: Intensive pesticide use in Uzbekistan
- National Academy of Sciences on Pesticides and effects on Children
- Pesticides hurt Unborn Children
- Pesticides hurt more than weeds
Videos: http://www.Nonviolenceunited.org/veganvideo.html
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