VRG’s new brochure, Save Our Water: The Vegetarian Way, is now online!
The beginning portion is excerpted below:
We all need clean water. No doubt about it. HOW to get it and keep it running clean and plentiful is becoming a problem almost everywhere. In fact, the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) predicts in a report titled Livestock’s Long Shadow, that by 2050, two-thirds of people worldwide will lack clean water to meet even their basic needs.
The good news is that one part of the solution is easy and close at hand! It all starts with your fork.
“Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems. Urgent action is required to remedy the situation.”
H. Steinfeld, senior author, Livestock’s Long Shadow, A report from the United Nations
Saving Earth’s Water By Eating A Vegetarian Diet
Did you know that the largest user of fresh water is the livestock industry? Water is directly needed for drinking and cleaning of animals. And that’s a lot of water when we’re talking about over 10 billion animals raised for food in the United States alone every year.
But the biggest way animal agriculture consumes water is indirectly. A large amount of fresh water is used to grow the feed that livestock animals eat.
Click here to read the rest of this brochure.