Meat the truth

Meat the Truth is a high-profile documentary, presented by MP Marianne Thieme (leader of the Dutch party for the Animals), which forms an addendum to earlier films on climate change. Although such films have succeeded in drawing public attention to the issue of global warming, they have repeatedly ignored one of the most important causes of climate change: the intensive livestock production. Meat the Truth draws attention to this by demonstrating that livestock farming generates more greenhouse gas emissions worldwide than all cars, lorries, trains, boats and planes added together. The calculations used in the film derive from and have been validated by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN (FAO), the World Watch Institute, the Institute for Environmental Studies of the Free University Amsterdam and numerous other authoritative sources. 'Meat the Truth' is presented by Marianne Thieme, leader of the Dutch Party for the Animals. A range of international celebrities, such as Pamela Anderson, Bill Maher, James Cromwell, Emily Deschanel, Tony Denison, Esai Morales, Megan Blake, Debra Wilson Skelton, Elaine Hendrix, Kate Flannery, Carol Leifer, Joy Lauren, Hal Sparks, Constance Marie, Kristina Klebe, Skyler Gisondo, Graham Patrick Martin, Greg Vaughan and Touriya Haoud Vaughan, participated in the making of the international version of the film.

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[OhmgrownCron]

You actually don't need any grains to feed cows. This argument is fucking stupid.

[wittyvegan]

@cano21 Do you have once source which states that Maher uses cocaine or pays prostitutes? I have never heard of it before.

And what has one thing to do with each other?

[Nelladagar]

@wittyvegan And so what if he has?

[tambeybarsik]

@OhmgrownCron It's true that you don't need any grains to feed cows. Their optimal source of food would be grass, but unfortunately that does even more damage to the worlds ecosystem. The truth is that the world cannot maintain its current level of meat consumption.

[kran2296]

@OhmgrownCron their would be just farms if we were to raise all our meat the way u suggest.. i believe its the better way and i agree with u ..however... the farms couldnt afford to have as many cows living that way.. the land would cost too much and the meat woudl not be saleable soon enuugh to make money.

[kran2296]

@OhmgrownCron SO what do u feed them? grass hay... same idea ...and the animals we they are talking about feeding are not freely roaming in feilds grazing on food. they live most of their lives tied or confined in a barn... also another reason they need so many vaccines...livng in wrong conditions....and they are grain feed....there is more of them per acre than plants to eat...the plants cant regrow and it would take too much land to house them.. so the farmers feed gain lol

[OhmgrownCron]

@Stupidxxxx Maybe, I don't know. I never made that argument. Some farmers feed their cows grains to fatten them up and sell them for more.

[Stupidxxxx]

@OhmgrownCron Yeah, sure there's enough grass on earth to feed billions of farm animals. Someone should really tell the farmers that they don't have to feed grains. *facepalm*

[OhmgrownCron]

@crazycanuck34 Its more efficient but unsustainable.

[OhmgrownCron]

@Stupidxxxx It's called grass, you know? That green stuff that grows everywhere. Cows eat that and don't need grains like corn. It seems to me that YOU are fucking stupid.

[Stupidxxxx]

@OhmgrownCron Yes, as everyone knows, animals in farm are fed with sunlight. It seems to me that you are fucking stupid.

[crazycanuck34]

@OhmgrownCron You don't need to feed cows grain if they have a large pasture to graze in, but the land is more efficiently used if it is used to grow grain. As a result most meat comes from factory farms, in which they feed the cattle grains because it is cheaper and requires less land.