TIL 84% of Vegetarians & Vegans go back to eating meat.

51% of carbon emissions comes from animal agriculture

[Citation needed].

I actually mixed up a couple numbers in there.

Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, more than all transportation combined. [i] Fao.org. Spotlight: Livestock impacts on the environment.

http://www.fao.org/ag/magazine/0612sp1.htm

Livestock and their byproducts account for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Goodland, R Anhang, J. “Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change were pigs, chickens and cows?”

WorldWatch, November/December 2009. Worldwatch Institute, Washington, DC, USA. Pp. 10–19.

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6294

Over 80% of the world grain, corn and soy is grown for the sole reason of being fed to livestock.

[Citation needed].

According to the National Corn Growers Association, about eighty percent of all corn grown in the U.S. is consumed by domestic and overseas livestock, poultry, and fish production.

The livestock industry is the largest consumer of soy meal. In fact, 98 percent of U.S. soy meal goes to feed pigs, chickens and cows. Animal agriculture is a soybean farmer’s #1 customer.

70% of US grain production is fed to livestock.

Most farm animals today would be culled anyway if the meat industry shut down. Hell, entire sub-species would go extinct.

I would welcome that if it meant more weren't being bred. Quality of life > Quantity of life.

I'm not sure why the name of a documentary that so very well sourced suddenly makes it any less untrue. But if disregarding something based on its name is all it takes for you, then alright.

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