FACTS
Sources
“Livestock farming is responsible for 14-18% of Greenhouse Gas Emissions”
“75% of fish stocks are exploited”
“66% of fishers have collapsed, total collapse by 2048”
“40% of global fish catch is by-catch”
“30% of global fish catch is used for animal feed ”
OCEANS (Bottom left of infograph)
“Abandoned fishing gear makes up 70% of surface marcro-plastics (by weight)”
“Fishing nets make up at least 46% of plastic mass of the Great Pacific Garbage Parch”
“Ghost gear is estimated to make up 10% of ocean plastic pollution”
“415 coastal ecosystems are now Ocean Dead Zones”
“Oceans have become 30% more acidic since ~1750, with dire consequences for many sea animals”
RESOURCES (Top Right of infograph)
“75% of global farmland could be rewilded if we stopped eating land based animal products”
- The Guardian, “Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth”, May 2018
- AAAAS (Amercian Association for the Advancement of Science, https://science.sciencemag.org/): “Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers”, Poore and Nemecek, May 2018
“Livestock farming uses 30% of global fresh-water supplies”
“Livestock farming uses 26-29% of the Earth’s ice-free land”
“Livestock farming uses 30% of the world’s grain”
- The Guardian, “What is the true cost of eating meat?”, May 2018
- Accordingly to a report by ATKearney called “How Will Cultured Meat and Meat Alternatives Disrupt the Agricultrual and Food Industry”, 46% of global harvest is used for animal feed
“~20% of Amazon rainforest is gone”
“~90% of Amazon destruction is caused by livestock farming”
ANIMALS (bottom right of infograph)
“60% of mammals are livestock, 36% humans and 4% wild animals”
“~80 billion land animals are farmed and killed each year”
“~74% of livestock animals are factory farmed”
HEALTH (bottom right of infograph)
“80% of all antibiotics in the US go to farm animals”
“75% of new or emerging diseases in people come from animals”
“84% of fish contain unsafe mercury levels”
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