Individuals who practice veganism are referred to as vegans. These individuals do not eat produce from land or sea animals.
Veganism is the abstinence from animal products especially in diet. It entails embracing plant related produce. Veganism is based on the premises that animal agriculture is environmentally unsustainable and also causes animal suffering.
The focus of this article is on the environmental unsustainablility aspect.
Animal agriculture is the rearing of animals primarily for food production such as meat, eggs etc. Animal agricultural practice is one of the major factors causing destruction of our environment.
Scientifically it's proven that animal agriculture accounts for an average of 50% of global green house gases emitted into the environment causing global warming. Global warming has the following negative effects;
Extreme weather conditions where wet places becomes more wetter and dry places becomes more dryer.
Rising sea level above sea bank which threatens low land coastal areas.
Destruction of agricultural lands for crop production.
Unlike animal agriculture, the cultivation of plants acts as absorption sink for green house gas like carbon dioxide.
Animal agricultural practice consumes excessive water on daily basics. This include using water for feeding animals, cleaning animal farming equipment and cultivating of animal feed crops.
It's scientifically proven that a single cow consumes 50 gallons of water daily and 100 gallons of water daily during hot weather condition. Unlike in plant production, very moderate amount of water is required. Also plant such as Water Hyacinth plays a role in water conservation and purification.
Excessive plots of land are consumed for rearing of animals. The following are ways in which animal farming causes land depreciation.
Forest land are been degraded of its natural elements such as trees exposing the land floor to adverse environmental effects such as desertification.
Large amount of waste is produced from animal agricultural practice on daily basis which is more than waste generated than human on daily basis. This waste consumes much portion of land space for sustainable land use.
You can find more facts on how animal farming make the environment unsustainable here
We cannot totally eliminate the adverse effects of animal farming on our environment neither can we totally eliminate animal agricultural practice, but we all can play a role by joining vegans in promoting more or veganism practice and less dependence on animal produce.
