Dr. Jane Goodall Wants You To Eat Less Meat And Her Reasons Are Pretty Sound

“Today, billions of domestic animals are raised in the horrific and very cruel conditions of industrial animal agriculture—factory farms. And it is not only the suffering of the animals that is of concern: huge areas of habitat are needed to grow the grain to feed the animals, or for grazing, much water (increasingly scarce in many parts of the world) is needed to change vegetable to animal protein, masses of fossil fuel is needed for the huge machines that do the work, large amounts of pesticides and herbicides lead to the destruction of the soil and loss of biodiversity, and to get the grain to the animals, the animals to slaughter and meat to the table. During digestion, these billions of animals, especially cattle, produce methane gas—a very virulent greenhouse gas. And the greenhouse gases are responsible for trapping the heat of the sun, leading to warming of the Earth and changed weather patterns.”



No one knows chimpanzees better than Dr. Jane Goodall. The British primatologist has been studying the great apes for over 60 years—since she first went to Tanzania in 1960 to observe and study the social behaviors of chimpanzees.“From a very young age, I loved animals,” Goodall tells Parade.c…

Source: https://parade.com/1195238/klconniewang/dr-jane-goodall-vege..

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