Social Cause # 03 : Are you concerned about nature & the environment ? Well , did you know that animal agriculture is the primary cause of rainforest destruction
( with 40 % of all global rainforests having been razed for cattle pasture within the past 40 years – and 220 square feet of rainforest being currently destroyed for every single pound of rainforest beef produced )? And did you know that animal agriculture is the primary cause of global topsoil loss ? And did you know that animal agriculture is one of the primary causes of global water pollution ? And did you know that animal agriculture is the primary cause of global habitat loss ( due to deforestation & desertification ). And did you know that animal agriculture is the primary cause of both global species extinction and the Earth ’ s ever-expanding oceanic dead zones ?
Well , now you do .
“ I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this precious planet of ours . Well make no mistake , even though we are indeed wrecking it , we won ’ t be doing so for long … For once our greed and our stupidity finally reach critical mass – once we finally make things truly unlivable here for ourselves and start to die off in mass numbers , the Earth will finally be free of us once and for all – and she will sigh in relief – and she will bloom once more .” ~ inspired by Kurt Vonnegut
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