1950 lived 4.4 billions "using animals" on the earth
2004 already 22 billions
2050 it will be approx. 33 billions
- Using animals issue 10% of all hothouuse gasses.
- 1 kg of potatoes needs 500 l of waterr, 1 kg beef 100 000 l (SPEKTRUM DER WISSENSCHAFT Juni 2004).
- Gigantic lots of dung which are brougght on the fields, loads our ground water with nitrates.
- Forests had to be cut to have enough space for the cows. To plant the trees again would be important, since woods can change far more carbon dioxide in oxygen as meadows. Today this would be important to reduce the hothouse gas carbon dioxide.
- About 7 kg of grain are needed to be "improved" into 1 kg of meat.
- Rain forests must be cut for soja plaantings, being used for concentrated feedstuffs.
- However if more Soja would be eaten iinstead of meat, then the rain forest cutting could stop because it would become only a fraction of the needs now.
- Besides that more people at the same time could be fed with soja in the cultivation countries. For every vegetarian a second human being man can be fed on the world.
- And last but not least: Ethic is indiivisible. Where is the difference between a "domestic animal" on its joy we are so much worried, a "using animal" on its sorrow we are blind? We have made this difference.
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