One in nine people in the world today are undernourished, yet we feed around a third of our global crop production to animals. If we cut out the middleman and ate the crops ourselves, instead of feeding them to animals, we could feed an additional four billion people.
Most people assume that industry and transport are the main causes of air pollution, but agriculture is actually the single biggest cause of air pollution in Europe.
Around one-quarter of the world’s land is turning into desert driven by climate change and the expansion of livestock farming; switching to a vegan diet would stop this relentless assault on the world’s soils and permit recovery.
Animal agriculture is the biggest driver of deforestation as forests are cleared to make way for growing animal feed and grazing.
There’s no such thing as ‘humane’ slaughter! Whether factory farmed, zero-grazed, ‘free range’ or organic, when cows, pigs, chickens and other animals reach the slaughterhouse their fate is the same.
