HELP ME OUT! I'm starting a website and one section is based on the sustainability of the diet.

 

My thoughts are scattered when it comes to environmentalism. Help me organize and collect data and facts about the planets resources.

 

Let's pool our thoughts here so we can learn more about sustainability in case we ever come across a "meat eating environmentalist"

 

Here's what I've just read in Whole Foods to THRIVE, by Brendan Brazier:

 

it takes 16lbs of plant food to produce 1lb of dead clow flesh.

1lb of dead cow flesh=16 lbs of plant food. WTF?

 

livestock production uses 70% of all arable land (land capable of growing food)

30% is left for humyn heavily sprayed mono crop fields which contain very few minerals.

0.8% (less than 1%!!) of all crops grown are organic. WTF?!

 

2.5% of the water on the planet is fresh water (not from the ocean)

70% of that is ice.
which leaves 30% unfrozen.

29% of that is underground and polluted.

whichleaves 1% that is available for humyn use.

70% of that is used for irrigation, mostly for livestock. 22% for industry use.

8% for domestic use=0.08 of that 1%. WTF?

 

 

random thought:

fruitarians plant seeds, water seeds, grow fruit, pick fruit, eat fruit, obtain high % of fiber, carbohydrates, micronutrients, enzymes, antioxidants etc

 

meat eaters plant seeds, water seeds, grow vegetation, pick vegetation, feed vegetation to animal for months, slaughter animal, cook flesh, eat carcass, obtain high % of fat and protein, carcinogens, acidity, cholesteral, natural occuring hormones, and no fiber.

 

I would appreciate your help in adding to this, organizing it in an easy to understand format.

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  • ** fruit trees are a 3-D growing model, which means that more is grown in a given area.

    ** cooking for 1 year wastes more energy than driving your car for a year.

    ** imagine if we didn't have to run hospitals!

  • I haven't watched it yet, but the documentary Planeat sounds like it would provide some useful information! 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNwohWQkktc&feature=youtube_gdat...
  • +1

    He states that 2.5 times as many people can eat from an acre of fruit as from an acre of grain.

  • Hi Ted,

     

    This website is great: http://www.vegsense.net/articles.html

     

    Aryan also has lots of videos on there and is happy to send out free DVDs. I'm friends with her and she is awesome and holds fantastic lectures about our diet's impact on the planet etc.

    In one of her talks, which is on those free DVDs, she explains simply but in detail how it all works with the water, the land, the emissions, etc.

     

    Hope this helps

    http://www.vegsense.net/articles.html
    • thanks! tons of info here.
      appreciate the link up eva

  • www.earthsave.org is a great site.

     

    I still have to convince people that planting food trees is good for the environment lol!

    EarthSave - Food intervention programs to achieve health independence
    EarthSave promotes food choices that are healthy for people and the planet and helps people transition toward a healthy plant-based diet.
    • how's this for a list?

      Fruit trees,

      • 1. grow with ease and little care.
      • 2. create oxygen.
      • 3. filter and purify the air.
      • 4. absorb C02.
      • 5. drop ripe fruit and the rotting fruit peels fertilize the soil.
      • 6. prevent soil erosion and regenerate soil quality through annual leaf fall.
      • 7. stabilize temperatures as they bring rain to dry regions.
      • 8. provide shelter and shade for all animals.
      • 9. provide food that requires no energy in preparation.
      • 10. become beautiful pieces of art.

       

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