vegetarian for one day

Americans are addicted to their meat.  They eat a lot of it.  Too much, actually.

A recent United Nations report concluded that the meat industry causes almost 40% more greenhouse gas emissions than all the world’s transportation systems — that means ALL of the globe’s cars, trucks, planes and ships COMBINED.  This accounts for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere.

So, one reporter went on a mission to find out what could happen if every American went without meat for one day.  Here are the statistics:

 

If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would save:

• 100 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the homes in New England for almost 4 months;
• 1.5 billion pounds of crops otherwise fed to livestock, enough to feed the state of New Mexico for more than a year;
• 70 million gallons of gas — enough to fuel all the cars of Canada and Mexico combined with plenty to spare;
• 3 million acres of land, an area more than twice the size of Delaware;
• 33 tons of antibiotics.

If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would prevent:

• Greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1.2 million tons of CO2, as much as produced by all of France;
• 3 million tons of soil erosion and $70 million in resulting economic damages;
• 4.5 million tons of animal excrement;
• Almost 7 tons of ammonia emissions, a major air pollutant.

 

Don’t you think for all these benefits, it might be worth a try?  And then, after you try one day, try two days.  And just ever so slightly increase the vegetarian days… and think of how this one VERY SIMPLE thing could change the world!

For the original article go HERE.