Organic Vegan Diet Can Savethe Planet

Master Says
BE VEG, GO GREEN 2 SAVE THE PLANET
now so extremely worried that they are even thinking of resorting to emergency ways to manipulate
nature on a large scale through risky geoengineering. But if we simply return these lands to nature
again, like forests and grassland, they would easily absorb a lot of emissions in the near future.
Please also note that the animal industry is the largest human-made source of methane and
nitrous oxide, the greenhouse gases that are 72 times and 300 times more potent, respectively, than
CO2. And methane, though being much worse than carbon dioxide, disappears many times faster,
in about 12 years as opposed to centuries for CO2. Therefore, eliminating livestock production
would cool the planet quickly, which is needed urgently if we think about the climate tipping
points that are getting nearer.
Moreover, as the Rodale Institute in the USA determined, if the world’s tillable land were
organically cultivated, then 40% of the atmospheric CO2 would automatically be absorbed by
the soil. Also, one German study found that consuming organic vegan fare could reduce dietary
greenhouse gas emissions up to 94%. Wow! Think about that.
Now, to briefly mention about financial cost. Dutch scientists have calculated that the powerful
change to the healthy vegan diet would not only dramatically reduce global warming, it would also
save 80% in climate mitigation costs by 2050.
2.Water Scarcity
Besides being a major water polluter, livestock
consumes vast amounts of this precious resource, with
as much as 200,000 liters required for each kilogram of
beef, whereas only a tiny fraction of that, or 2,000 liters,
is needed per kilogram of soybeans, for example. Put
another way, eating four hamburgers costs a person the
water equivalent of a year’s daily showers. Wow! Think
of that again.
And while 1.1 billion people don’t have access
to safe water, including 6,000 children who die every
day from drinking polluted water (and that is on our
conscience), some 1 trillion cubic meters of clean water
is wasted on raising livestock. Are we really robbing our
children of precious resource such as water for merely
a poisonous disease-laden, disease-causing but easily
replaced piece of meat I’m sure you all agree, ladies and gentlemen, that this is not acceptable.
3.Food Crisis
To meet the needs of a growing population, more and more scientists and
other experts are affirming the logic and efficiency of reducing livestock so
that food can be delivered to people directly. Today’s livestock are bred and
fattened on nearly half of the world’s grain supply, while almost 11 million
children, most of whom live in those countries where these feed grains are
grown, die, ironically, of hunger each year. On the other hand, directly supplied grain could
easily feed more than the entire world’s population.
24 The Supreme Master Ching Hai News No. 208