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The biggest difference between people that care about the scientific data and the people who think they do is the ones you turn a blind eye to the root causes of climate change. Not even taking into consideration regarding the animal liberation, is the fact that animal agricultural is the leading cause of zoonotic viruses & pandemics, and the deathly destruction of our one home and all the living creatures that inhabit it.  

Animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution, and habitat destruction. https://youaretheirvoice.com/pages/the-daunting-facts

Livestock covers 45% of the earth’s total land. https://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/10601/IssueBrief3.pdf

51% of greenhouse gas emissions are due to livestocks and their byproducts. http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/food-carbon-footprint-diet

90 million tons of fish are pulled from the oceans each year. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/oceans/critical-issues-overfishing/

2,500 gallons of water are needed to produce 1 pound of beef. https://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/

Livestock is responsible for 60% of Nitrous Oxide emissions (296x more destructive than cO2) http://www.fao.org/3/a0701e/a0701e00.htm https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/ghg_report/ghg_nitrous.php

A person who follows a vegan diet produces the equivalent of 50% less carbon dioxide. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-014-1169-1

Every minute, 7 million pounds of excrement are produced by animals raised for food in the US https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/null/?cid=nrcs143_014211 https://directives.sc.egov.usda.gov/viewerFS.aspx?hid=21430 https://directives.sc.egov.usda.gov/OpenNonWebContent.aspx?content=31475.wba

Up to 137 species are lost every day from rainforest destruction. https://msu.edu/~urquhart/professional/NASA-Deforestation.pdf

1 to 1.5 acres rainforest are cleared every second http://www.savetheamazon.org/rainforeststats.htm

Animal agriculture is responsible for 91% of amazon destruction https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/15060/277150PAPER0wbwp0no1022.pdf?sequence=1

We could see fishless oceans by 2048. https://cdn.ioos.noaa.gov/media/2017/12/worm-et-al.pdf https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2006/11/seafood-biodiversity/

For 1 pound of fish, up to 5 pounds of unintended species are caught. http://www.fao.org/3/W6602E/w6602E09.htm

80% of antibiotic sold in the US are for livestock. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4638249/

Around 9 billion land animals are killed each year in the U.S. alone to produce meat, dairy, and eggs. That’s about one million every hour. https://awellfedworld.org/factory-farms/

We are currently growing enough food to feed 10 billion people. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2012/05/08/we-already-grow-enough-food-10-billion-people-and-still-cant-end-hunger

82% of starving children live in countries where food is fed to animals, and eaten by other countries http://comfortablyunaware.com/blog/the-world-hunger-food-choice-connection-a-summary/

As many as 650,000 whales, dolphins and seals are killed every year. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/20/americas-nine-most-wasteful-fisheries-named https://oceana.org/sites/default/files/reports/Bycatch_Report_FINAL.pdf

Greenhouse gas emissions across the supply chain https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/food-emissions-supply-chain

1,000 gallons of water are required to produce 1 gallon of milk. https://waterfootprint.org/media/downloads/Hoekstra-2008-WaterfootprintFood.pdf https://waterfootprint.org/media/downloads/Mekonnen-Hoekstra-2012-WaterFootprintFarmAnimalProducts_1.pdf