Slash and Burn

Just check the facts! Do a web search on the cause of deforestation, or why we are losing our rainforest! It is our fault, and it is our responsibility!
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/cheeseburger-deforestation-weat...

"Just one hog farm in Utah, for example, produces more sewage than the city of Los Angeles. These megafarms are proliferating, and in populous areas their waste is tainting drinking water. In more pristine regions, from Indonesia to the Amazon, tropical rain forest is being burned down to make room for more and more cattle. Agriculture is the world's biggest cause of deforestation, and increasing demand for meat is the biggest force in the expansion of agriculture."

"...hugely inefficient use of freshwater and land, heavy pollution from livestock feces, rising rates of heart disease and other degenerative illnesses, and spreading destruction of the forests on which much of our planet's life depends."

"Much as we have awakened to the full economic and social costs of cigarettes, we will find we can no longer subsidize or ignore the costs of mass-producing cattle, poultry, pigs, sheep and fish to feed our growing population. These costs include hugely inefficient use of freshwater and land, heavy pollution from livestock feces, rising rates of heart disease and other degenerative illnesses, and spreading destruction of the forests on which much of our planet's life depends."

Time Magazine Report: Visions of the 21st Century, "Will We Still Eat Meat?"
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,992523-1,00.html

"As forests are cleared to create new pastures, livestock is a major driver of deforestation, especially in Latin America where some 70 per cent of former forests in the Amazon have been turned over to grazing." UN report
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?newsID=20772&CR1=warning

According to scientists at the Smithsonian Institute, the equivalent of seven football fields of land is bulldozed every minute, much of it to create more room for farmed animals.

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[raikuedx99]

If only god made us more humane than inhumane.

[Suzan4B]

Thank you for a most informative and very sad display of "humanity"

[mooker5600]

Thanks for including links to those interesting articles. I found them useful.