What it’s like to live in California and everyone is talking about the drought? There is a forum app called NextDoor, where neighbors talk about local issues. There is a lot of talk about our current drought, where water restrictions are now enforced. We cannot use irrigation only overhead watering for instance. Since when did monitoring personal water usage become …
Water Footprint of Food
The Water Footprint of Foods “California is experiencing one of its driest years in the past half millennium. It also happens to be the country’s leading dairy supplier. With profits surpassing $7 billion in 2012, the California dairy industry is far and away the most valuable sector of the state’s enormous agricultural bounty. Unfortunately…dairy products use a whole lot of …
Meat production and the Environment
Vegans don’t usually need a reason to hate factory farming aside from cruelty to animals and their death. Some people, though, need a little more convincing. Plus, it never hurts to have more support when someone asks why veganism is so fantastic. This is where knowledge about the environmental impacts of factory farming is critical. Approximately 10 billion animals are …
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
This movie is beyond fantastic! A must see for anyone who cares about the environment! There is one industry making this World an Environmental Disaster, yet no Enivronmental Organization wants to talk about it. Animal Agriculture. Watch this thriller and find out why. Cowspiracy.com to buy a movie or find a showing. Please watch the trailer. Website: http://www.cowspiracy.com
WorldWatch Environmental Impact of Livestock
http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf/Livestock%20and%20Climate%20Change.pdf
Eating meat and dairy are killing our Planet
Comfortably Unaware’s Dr. Richard Oppenlander: —>50% of all the water used in the U.S. is given to the animals people eat. —>70 billion animals are raised and killed each year for food. A few billion of these animals need up to 40 or more gallons of water per day…which is over 100 times what we, individually, consume daily. —>The average …
