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Unsustainable Water impact of livestock farming
- Water usage much higher for livestock cultivation
- 1lb of potato, corn, rice use 60-200 lbs of water
- 1lb cow meat takes 2,000 lbs of water
- 25% of river water used for animal feed and cattle
- 25% of fresh water for animal farming,
- This reduces water available to cities
- Moving agro business to other countries increases
Unsustainable ocean fishing for seafood
- Greenhouse emissions from seafood highest per calorie
- Experts say ocean warming like the heat of 3-5 bombs thrown continuously!!
- Rivers, streams are not clean where fish live – they are high in mercury and other harmful chemicals as PCBs
- Fish is not essential, high saturated fat, cholesterol, no fiber
- Green vegetables have many omega-3
- Estimated 40% of 1 Trillion fish fed to chicken, pigs, salmon
- 28 billions animals removed from oceans in a year impact ocean recovery
- 1 lb of fish catches much more (5x) un-targeted species