Veggie-riffic! November 20, 2007

Oh my gosh. I just got the vegetarian starter kit from PETA. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to eat meat again. It is completely horrid the way that animals raised for food are treated. But not only that, becoming a vegetarian is the number one best thing you can do to help the environment too! Who knew? Nearly half the water in the US is used to raise animals for food. A meat based diet uses up 4,000 gallons of water per person per day; a vegan diet only 300 gallons. Farmed animal feces are the number one cause of methane gas, which is 20X more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in our atmosphere. Also, out of ALL the fossil fuels and raw materials in our country, more than one-third are used to raise animals for food. Stories about pus filled milk, arsenic in chicken and other horrific tales were also inside. I got my info at peta.org, under the veg. starter kit. I’m going to have my five year old go vegan too.