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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Vegetarian</strong>Solution to WaterPollutionBased on the United Nations Report“Livestock’s Long Shadow”By VRG Research Director Jeanne Yacoubou, MSIN 2006, THE UNITED NATIONS RELEASED Areport assessing livestock raising and its impacton the environment. Henning Steinfeld, seniorauthor of this report, announced, “Livestock are oneof the most significant contributors to today’s mostserious environmental problems.… Urgent action isrequired to remedy the situation.”Livestock’s Long Shadow: Environmental Issues andOptions represents a breakthrough in the literature onanimal agriculture as it relates to environmental issues.This report directly establishes and quantifies causeeffectrelationships between livestock production andenvironmental problems on a problem-by-problembasis on a global level. With Livestock’s Long Shadow,an international body clearly shows the connectionbetween diet and major environmental problems.“Livestock are one of the mostsignificant contributors to today’smost serious environmentalproblems.… Urgent action isrequired to remedy the situation.”In light of a projection that global meat productionwill more than double by 2050, Livestock’s LongShadow warns, “<strong>The</strong> environmental costs per unit oflivestock production must be cut by one half, just toavoid increasing the level of damage beyond its presentlevel.” In June 2008, Yvo de Boer, head of the UnitedNations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC), summed up a way to solve this problemquickly. He said, “<strong>The</strong> best solution would be for usall to become vegetarians.”In this <strong>Vegetarian</strong> Journal article, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Vegetarian</strong><strong>Resource</strong> <strong>Group</strong> (VRG) examines the informationcovered in Livestock’s Long Shadow, Chapter Four,which is titled “Livestock’s Role in Water Depletionand Pollution.”WATER USAGE, FROM START TO FINISH,IN THE LIVES OF ANIMALS<strong>The</strong> U.N. notes that most decision-makers work underthe assumption that a very small estimate (

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