Making the World a Better Place

If I could change one thing in this world, it would be to lessen the amount of animal and animal by products that we eat and use as a whole. Humans use more animal by products than what we realize. So, not only do we eat them, but we also slaughter and abuse them for clothes, makeup, jewelry, beauty products, etc. Animals have no rights and are being abused for many human needs. For example, why should we do lab testing on animals? They have no choice and they have no need for our products.

I'm not trying to make people vegan or vegetarian but I think people should be more thoughtful when they eat. Even small changes help. How about eating more plants and vegetables? Less meat? I'm going to add some fun facts that I hope everyone will take the time to read.

• According to the United Nations, raising animals for food (including land used for grazing and land used to grow feed crops) now uses a staggering 30 percent of the Earth’s land mass. More than 260 million acres of U.S. forest have been cleared to create cropland to grow grain to feed farmed animals, and according to scientists at the Smithsonian Institution, the equivalent of seven football fields of land is bulldozed worldwide every minute to create more room for farmed animals.

• Raising animals for food is grossly inefficient, because while animals eat large quantities of grain, soybeans, oats, and corn, they only produce comparatively small amounts of meat, dairy products, or eggs in return. This is why more than 70 percent of the grain and cereals that we grow in this country are fed to farmed animals.
  It takes up to 13 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of meat, and even fish on fish farms must be fed up to 5 pounds of wild-caught fish to produce 1 pound of farmed fish flesh.

• It takes more than 2,400 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of meat, while growing 1 pound of wheat only requires 25 gallons. You save more water by not eating a pound of meat than you do by not showering for six months!

• According to Greenpeace, all the wild animals and trees in more than 2.9 million acres of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil were destroyed in the 2004-2005 crop season in order to grow crops that are used to feed chickens and other animals in factory farms.

• There are no meaningful federal guidelines that regulate how factory farms treat, store, and dispose of the trillions of pounds of concentrated, untreated animal excrement that they produce each year. This waste may be left to rot in huge lagoons or sprayed over crop fields; both of these disposal methods result in runoff that contaminates the soil and water and kills fish and other wildlife. The concentration of parasites, bacteria, and chemical contaminants in animal excrement can wreak havoc on the ecosystems affected by farm runoff and can sicken people who live near these farms.

• The EPA reports that chicken, hog, and cattle excrement has polluted 35,000 miles of rivers in 22 states and contaminated groundwater in 17 states. When 25 million gallons of putrid hog urine and feces spilled into a North Carolina river in 1995, between 10 million and 14 million fish died as an immediate result.


• In West Virginia and Maryland, scientists have discovered that male fish are growing ovaries, and they suspect that this deformity is the result of factory farm runoff from drug-laden chicken feces.

• When the cesspools holding tons of urine and feces get full, factory farms frequently dodge water pollution limits by spraying liquid manure into the air, creating mists that are carried away by the wind. People who live nearby are forced to inhale the toxins and pathogens from the sprayed manure. In addition, according to a report by the California State Senate, “Studies have shown that [animal waste] lagoons emit toxic airborne chemicals that can cause inflammatory, immune, irritation and neurochemical problems in humans.”

Each one of those bullet points came from an article on peta.org http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/meat-wastes-natural-resources/

How would I implement my plan? I'm still not exactly sure. It would be mostly political. Instead of showing those really sad animal rescue commercials with the sad music that everyone changes the channel to. I would start playing really sad factory animal commercials. Has anyone ever seen one of those videos on Peta? If you can't see how your food is being treated before you eat it, then you shouldn't be eating it? People should know where their food is coming from and what exactly is in it. The media can have a huge impact on how society views subjects. I would also need a few congressmen to get on board. If I could get Michelle Obama, that would make a huge impact. A few laws would need to get passed; each county can only have 100 animals killed each month. The animals must be from farms in the area and must live a long life; 2/3 of its life expectancy.

My idea would help the world become a better and healthier place to live. People's lifestyles would improve, people would lose weight (especially in America), there would be less carbon dioxide in the air, less toxic  chemicals every where, less animals, less overall suffering.

Watch the video: There is a link to it as well.

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