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Environment
Our food choices
shape the planet.
Animal agriculture is a leading contributor to climate change, deforestation, water depletion and pollution. Worried about AI's energy use? Livestock alone produce about 12% of human-caused greenhouse gases, far more than all the world's data centers combined, and meat and dairy use 83% of our farmland.
Make the Connection
Producing animal-based foods requires vastly more land, water and energy than plant-based alternatives. According to researcher Joseph Poore at the University of Oxford, “A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use.”
When we understand this connection, our everyday choices take on new meaning.
Animal agriculture contributes more greenhouse gas emissions than all transportation sectors combined.
Learn More
- The 5 Biggest Myths About Factory Farming
- Former Meat and Dairy Farmers Who Became Vegan Activists
- CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation): The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories
- Factory Farming
- Factory Farming: People and Poverty
- Slaughterhouse Workers
- Environmental Racism
- The Someone Project: Farm Animal Behavior, Emotion, and Intelligence
- Rising Number of Farm Animals Poses Environmental and Public Health Risks
- Factory Farming FAQ
- Farm Animal Life Expectancy