How Does Going Vegan Affect the Environment?

- Animals

When you go vegan and stop eating meat, less animals are sent to the slaughterhouse to endure a terrible death because there are less demands for meat. A cow born on a farmhouse is brought away from it’s mother as soon as they are born so that we can take the mother’s milk. The calves then grow up in stinking sheds and they will never live the life they deserve. Most of them never see sunlight and they are given the minimal amount to survive. And this is no different in farms that call themselves ‘higher welfare’ – researchers have found out that no farm is different in the way that they treat the animals – all they care about is profit.

Even one person going vegan is a good thing for the animals in farmhouses. Every year in the UK, around 1 billion animals are born, bred under horrible conditions and then killed for human consumption and for profit. That doesn’t even include fish! Then after they’re sold – to us – around 27% of meat goes to waste. That’s 270000000 animals dead after suffering their whole lives – for nothing!

Stop eating meat and you can help. Please stop animal cruelty! Spread the message and more people can help increase the welfare of animals.

- Environment

By going vegan you save mother Earth and use less fresh water. One quarter of our Earth’s water is used on meat and dairy production alone. By going vegan you can spare more fresh water for people suffering from water-related deseases too – more than 848 million people around the world don’t get safe water to drink.

There will also be a lot less Greenhouse Gases emitted if you go vegan. Greenhouse gases trap heat in our atmosphere, causing climate change and global warming. They’re what makes summers hot and unbearable. Animal agriculture emits over 14% of global emissions and studies show that if you go vegan, Greenhouse Gas emissions caused by Agriculture, at least animal agriculture, can be cut in half. Studies have also found that if everyone went vegan, Greenhouse gas and other types of emissions would go down by 70%, enough to reverse lots of harmful effects global warming has, and also prevent lots of man-made natural disasters.

- World Hunger

We humans produce enough calories to feed about 9 billion people – that’s more than our total world population. And farming animals are a huge waste of farmland and crops – 80% of farmland are used on farming animals and they only produce less than 18% of calories. If we stopped eating meat, we can stop world hunger at once.

- Your Own Health

When someone advises you to go Vegan you might argue that it’s how the food chain works – but it’s far from the truth. Keeping a balanced plant-based diet can keep you perfectly healthy. So we don’t actually need to eat meat to survive. To keep yourself healthy you should:

- Eat at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetables each day. This will provide yourself with the nutrients you need.

- Have wholegrain bread or potatoes and starchy carbohydrates as your meal’s main component.

- Sure, meat provides you with proteins – but you can get your required amounts of proteins by eating beans, pulses and there are also a variety of protein-based foods.

- Drink lots of water – coffee also produces about 17% of greenhouse gas and tea 6%.

- Use unsaturated oil.