• Do you know how much land is used to raise animals for food?
• How much water?
• The impact on our environment?
To put things in even more perspective:
It has become apparent that the human appetite for animal flesh is a driving force behind virtually every major category of environmental damage now threatening the human future—deforestation, erosion, fresh water scarcity, air and water pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice, the destabilization of communities, and the spread of disease.
– The Worldwatch Institute