you are what you eat
DESCRIPTION
A presentation drawn up for a CC9 speech with the general purpose of informing the audience about the impact of eating meat and the specific purpose of persuading them to adopt a more healthy, humane dietTRANSCRIPT
You are what you
eat
Threat to the planet
Pollution
Water, grain, petrol,pesticide, drug usage
http://www.chooseveg.com/environment.asp
Environmental impactwater usage
1. http://www.frysvegetarian.co.za/latest-news/meat-free-mondays-officially-launches-in-sa/
1kg meat 1kg wheat -
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Water usage1
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World Watch Institute
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Environmental impactland destruction and extinction
Rainforest destruction for grazing
1. http://www.chooseveg.com/extinction.asp
Environmental impactland destruction and extinction
http://www.chooseveg.com/extinction.asp
1 =20
100+
dozens+
Environmental impactglobal warming
Raising animals for food generates more green-house gases than all the cars and trucks worldwide1
1. http://www.chooseveg.com/global-warming.asp Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars. UN News Centre, 2006.
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soy protein meat protein (low estimate)
meat protein (high estimate)
Relative fossil fuel usage
•Manure
• Cow burps and flatulence
• Fossil fuels
Animals endure enormous pain and suffering on factory farms
Confined - can barely move
Veal calves chained by the neck in small stalls
Up to 13 hens crammed in a single cage
www.chooseveg.com
Animals endure enormous pain and suffering on factory farms
Denied veterinary care - profitability
www.chooseveg.com
Hen with a diseased eye Many pigs die from untreated illnesses brought on by poor living conditions
Animals endure enormous pain and suffering on factory farms
Mutilated without painkillers
www.chooseveg.com
De-beaking is very painful for chicks Piglets are castrated, have their teeth clipped and tails cut off without anaesthesia
Animals endure enormous pain and suffering on factory farms
Slaughtered
www.chooseveg.com
Some cattle have their throats slit while fully conscious
Support Meat-free Mondays!If each South African goes meat free 1 day a week:• 11,200 cows• 2 million chickens• 10,000 pigs• 22,300 sheep
saved WEEKLY1
1. Compassion in World Farming www.support.mtm.co.za
Take a stand
Vegetarian or vegan diet
Buy responsibly produced products
