PETA Vegan Starter Kit 1 | Page 10

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Look at All You ll Save

Eating A nimals
Harms the Environment

You’ll save animals.
A vegan saves more than 100 animals
a year – by not eating them.

According to the United Nations, going vegan is one of the
most important ways to reduce greenhouse gases, lower
pollution, stop deforestation and conserve resources.

Number of Animals Slaughtered in the UK: 1700 per minute • 102,000 per hour • 2,500,000 per day • More than a billion per year

You’ll save money
at the supermarket.

A Mammoth
Carbon Footprint

Up to Our Necks in Ick
Animal waste from factory farms

Razing Paradise
to Make Hamburgers

Researchers from the University of

is usually put into a pit to be disposed

In Brazil, the world’s largest beef exporter,

Some of the most versatile vegan foods –

California–Riverside calculate that grilling

of later. These pits can be vast –

the amount of Amazon rain forest slashed

including beans, rice, vegetables, tofu and

just one burger causes as much pollution

large-scale dairy farms can generate

and burned to create grazing land for

pasta – cost relatively little compared to

as driving an 18-wheeler for 143 miles.

as much as 187,000 cubic metres of

cows grew by approximately 10 million

animal products. Even vegans

A Loma Linda University study sho ws

manure per year – enough to fill 75

hectares – an area the size of Portugal –

who buy costlier

that vegans have the smallest carbon

Olympic swimming pools. Just one

during a 10-year period, according to a

footprint, generating a volume of

cow can produce 140 pounds of

Greenpeace report. In 2006, the Brazilian

greenhouse gases 41 per cent smaller

manure each day. Factory-farm waste

government estimated that there were

than that of meat-eaters and 13 per

seeps into our waterways, sickening

three head of cattle in the Amazon for

cent smaller than that of vegetarians.

people and killing aquatic life.

every human inhabitant.

soya sausage and
non-dairy ice cream

You’ll save money on medication.
Studies show that vegans are less likely to be obese or suffer from heart

can still spend less

disease, diabetes, cancer, strokes and other health problems. If you factor

than people who

in all the money you can save on medications and weight-loss plans by

load up on beef,

avoiding unhealthy, artery-clogging animal products, you’ll see why a

chicken and fish.

vegan diet is downright economical.

You’ll save
human lives.
Going vegan
helps alleviate
hunger.

resulting in just
1 lb of meat.

providing 10 people with food for an entire day.

Approximately 925 million people worldwide do not have enough to eat – yet the world’s cattle alone consume enough food to meet the
caloric needs of 8.7 billion people. According to a 2010 United Nations report, more than half of the world’s crops are used to feed farmed
animals, not people. With millions of people going hungry, it’s wasteful to funnel edible food through farmed animals.

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