How Being Vegetarian Can Save the Environment

The surrounding where we live is what we call as environment and it is being exploited. So it’s the time when we need to wake up and help in saving it. There are various ways in which we can help in saving our beautiful environment from being destroyed. One of them is being a vegetarian. Its sounds silly but if we carefully look at the small things that are saved by a person who is a vegetarian then it’s make a major difference to our environment. To make things possible we need to start from somewhere and little things we do today are going to make a big difference tomorrow.
We do not own animals (and even if we do then they have their own life) so they can’t be used for food, clothing, entertainment, experimentation, or any other reason. They too have their own life, feelings of love, happiness, fear just as we all human beings do. How are we going to feel if somebody is going to do the same things with us? We, humans, should not go through all these slaughters and stuff like that because we can speak and can express our pain and emotions.
Vegetarian diet reduces the destruction of tropical rainforests, wildlife habitat, and help to save endangered species. It is sad that rainforest are being cut to make room to raise more and more cattle. One of the reasons how being a vegetarian helps the environment is that you do not have to eat hamburgers for which as a matter of fact “every second, one football field of rainforest is destroyed in order to produce 257 hamburgers”.
For producing a single pound of meat, nearly 2500 gallons of water is needed. US use half of the water in animal agriculture. 250,000 pounds of waste is produced per second by the livestock which is 20 times as much as humans. “It takes ten times as much land to produce food for an average American compared to a pure vegetarian”. As a whole if everyone is going to be vegetarian (well, that’s not possible) then certainly it’s going to help our environment in many ways.

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