“The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at all. They are nothing. They don’t count; they don’t matter; they’re commodities like TV sets and cell phones. We have actually turned animals into inanimate objects – sandwiches and shoes.”

– Gary Yurofsky, Founder ADAPTT

Quick Facts about Animal Agriculture

• Animal agriculture is the #1 cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution, and habitat destruction
• Livestock covers 45% of the earth’s total land
• 130x more livestock waste than human waste is produced in the US
  (5 tons of animal waste is produced per person in the US)
• Water consumption for animal agriculture ranges from 34-76 trillion gallons annually
• 2,500 gallons of water are required to produce 1 pound of beef
• Cows drink 45 billion gallons of water and eat 135 billion pounds of food each day. More than 50% of all grain produced is fed to livestock
• 82% of starving children live in countries where food is fed to animals, and the animals are eaten by western countries
• At the current rate, we are growing enough food to feed 10 billion people
• For every 1 pound of fish caught, up to 5 pounds of unintended marine species are caught and discarded (we could see fishless oceans by 2048)

– statistics according to Cowspiracy.com

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