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Eat less meat to help address deforestation and food insecurity

There are also 216,000 more people born every single day. Under the current agricultural system with current
levels of meat eating, you would need 34,000 new acres of farmable land per day to feed these people –
which means escalating deforestation and land use conflicts, unless people start to change their diets and we
start using some of the land we use to grow grain to feed cattle, to instead grow vegetables to feed people.
This is because we can produce 37,000 lbs of vegetables in 1.5 acres; compared to only 375 pounds of meat
on the same plot of land.

To feed you for a year

1/6 1/2 1/11th 1/13th
Veganism = the amount
of an acre as much the amount
of land * CO 2 of Fossil of water
Fuel

* If you are a vegetarian, 3x this amount of land. If you are an average omnivore, 18 x this amount of land

30 sq feet of
What you could save in one day
if you went vegan forest

45 pounds of
grain

1100 gallons of
water

20 pounds of
CO 2

The life of one
animal

Omnivore Vegan

CO2 Oil Water Land CO2 Oil Water Land

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