COWSPIRACY The Sustainability Secret in about 15 minutes Short Version YouTube mp4
Summary
TLDRThis video script explores the devastating environmental impact of animal agriculture, highlighting its significant contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, water use, and species extinction. It compares the effects of livestock farming to the transportation sector, revealing that raising animals for food generates more emissions. The script also discusses the unsustainable nature of current meat and dairy consumption, the strain it places on global resources, and its connection to climate change. It concludes with the benefits of a plant-based diet in reducing environmental damage and conserving resources.
Takeaways
- 🌍 Climate change is rapidly approaching dangerous levels, with CO2 already exceeding 400 ppm and temperature increases nearing 2°C.
- 🌡️ A 2°C rise in temperature could result in severe consequences like droughts, famine, species extinction, and geopolitical conflicts.
- 🐄 Livestock, especially cows, produce more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector, with methane being far more destructive than CO2.
- 💧 Raising livestock consumes enormous amounts of water; for instance, producing a quarter-pound hamburger requires 660 gallons of water.
- 🌿 Animal agriculture is responsible for 51% of all human-induced greenhouse gases, contributing more to climate change than fossil fuels.
- 🔥 Livestock farming leads to deforestation, loss of biodiversity, and ocean dead zones, making it the largest environmental threat.
- 🌾 A plant-based diet is significantly more sustainable, using less water, land, and energy compared to meat-based diets.
- 🐟 Overfishing is depleting marine ecosystems, with predictions of fishless oceans by 2048 if current practices continue.
- 🏞️ Animal agriculture occupies 45% of Earth’s land and is the leading cause of rainforest destruction and species extinction.
- 🌱 Vegan diets require far fewer resources and produce less pollution, making them a more sustainable option for feeding the global population.
Q & A
What is the current level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and how does it compare to safe levels?
-The current level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is already at 400 parts per million, exceeding the safe level of 350 parts per million, which is considered the highest manageable level without severe environmental consequences.
What are the potential consequences of exceeding a 2°C increase in global temperature?
-Exceeding a 2°C increase in global temperature could lead to severe droughts, famines, human conflicts, species extinctions, rising sea levels causing countries to go underwater, and climate-induced migration or wars.
How does livestock contribute to greenhouse gas emissions compared to the transportation sector?
-Livestock produces more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector, contributing 18% of global emissions compared to 13% from transportation. Livestock emissions include methane, which is 25 to 100 times more destructive than carbon dioxide.
What is the environmental impact of methane emissions from livestock versus carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles?
-Methane emissions from livestock are far more destructive to the environment, being 25 to 100 times more harmful than carbon dioxide. Additionally, methane breaks down more quickly in the atmosphere, meaning reductions in methane can show environmental improvements faster than CO2 reductions.
What is the water consumption difference between animal agriculture and domestic water use in the United States?
-Domestic water use in the United States accounts for only 5% of the total water consumption, while animal agriculture consumes 55%. For example, producing a single quarter-pound hamburger requires 660 gallons of water.
Why is grass-fed beef considered more unsustainable than factory-farmed beef?
-Grass-fed beef is more unsustainable because it requires significantly more land. To meet the U.S. demand for meat using grass-fed methods would require clearing vast amounts of land, including forests and cities, which is not feasible.
How does animal agriculture impact rainforest destruction and species extinction?
-Animal agriculture is a leading cause of deforestation and species extinction, responsible for up to 91% of Amazon rainforest destruction. This destruction also leads to loss of habitat and biodiversity.
What is the impact of overfishing on the world's oceans?
-Overfishing is causing severe damage to marine ecosystems, with 75% of the world's fisheries being overexploited. Current practices also result in significant bycatch, which includes untargeted species like dolphins, whales, and turtles. This could lead to fishless oceans by 2048.
How does animal agriculture contribute to global food insecurity?
-Animal agriculture exacerbates global food insecurity by consuming large amounts of crops that could otherwise be used to feed humans. For instance, 50% of the world's grain is fed to livestock, despite the world producing enough food to feed 12 to 15 billion people.
What are the health and environmental benefits of adopting a vegan diet?
-A vegan diet reduces environmental impact by using less water, land, and fossil fuels. It produces half the CO2 emissions of an omnivorous diet, and adopting a vegan diet can save over 1,100 gallons of water, 45 pounds of grain, 30 square feet of forested land, and one animal's life daily.
Outlines
🌍 Rising CO2 Levels and Climate Catastrophe
The world is already exceeding safe levels of carbon dioxide emissions, with current atmospheric levels at 400 ppm. Scientists recommend staying below a 2°C increase to avoid catastrophic effects such as drought, famine, and species extinction. The ongoing increase in emissions, combined with rising sea levels and drought, will lead to climate-related conflicts and migration. Methane emissions from livestock are a major contributor to this crisis, with cows producing more harmful methane than the entire transportation sector. The consequences of this, including hydraulic fracturing and water waste, far outweigh efforts to conserve water in daily life, emphasizing the significant impact of animal agriculture.
🌱 Animal Agriculture and Environmental Destruction
Animal agriculture is the largest contributor to climate change, surpassing all other industries. Livestock accounts for 51% of human-caused greenhouse gases, driving deforestation, species extinction, and water scarcity. While most discussions focus on fossil fuels, animal farming is the main source of environmental devastation. In fact, raising livestock consumes vast amounts of water and land, contributing to the destruction of rainforests and ocean ecosystems. The emissions from livestock methane far exceed the impact of carbon dioxide, making animal farming a top contributor to climate change. Despite these alarming facts, major environmental organizations remain largely silent on this issue.
🐄 The Sustainability Crisis of Dairy Farming
The global demand for dairy is unsustainable due to the immense amount of water required for production. A single gallon of cow's milk requires up to 1,000 gallons of water. Large corporations profit from this system, controlling policies with political influence. The animal agriculture industry wields enormous power, shaping federal laws around food production. While some claim overpopulation is the problem, the real issue is the overproduction of livestock. Humans use excessive resources to raise animals, which exacerbates global hunger and environmental damage. Experts agree that dairy farming cannot sustainably meet the growing demand.
🥛 The Harmful Effects of Cow’s Milk
Cow’s milk is designed to turn a small calf into a 400-pound cow, containing hormones and proteins meant for growth. Consuming cow’s milk is not only unnecessary for humans but also harmful. It can lead to various health issues, such as breast lumps and fibroids in women and 'man boobs' in men. Plant-based diets, on the other hand, require far less land and resources, making them much more sustainable. A vegan diet uses significantly fewer resources, such as water and fossil fuels, compared to an omnivorous diet, and can dramatically reduce an individual's carbon footprint.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
💡Methane
💡Animal Agriculture
💡Deforestation
💡Water Scarcity
💡Climate Change
💡Species Extinction
💡Rainforest Destruction
💡Overfishing
💡Grass-fed Beef
Highlights
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has already surpassed 400 ppm, and we are rapidly approaching a 2°C temperature increase, which could have perilous implications such as drought, famine, and species extinction.
Animal agriculture is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector, contributing 18% compared to 13% from transportation.
Methane gas from livestock is 25 to 100 times more destructive than carbon dioxide, making animal agriculture a significant contributor to climate change.
Raising livestock in the U.S. consumes 34 trillion gallons of water annually, far surpassing the 100 billion gallons used by hydraulic fracturing for natural gas.
A quarter-pound hamburger requires over 660 gallons of water to produce, making it far more impactful than household water-saving efforts.
World Bank advisors found that animal agriculture is responsible for 51% of all greenhouse gases, not just 18% as previously reported by the UN.
Animal agriculture consumes one-third of the planet's freshwater and is responsible for up to 91% of Amazon rainforest destruction.
Without even using fossil fuels, current livestock production alone could lead to exceeding the maximum carbon emissions by 2030.
Free-living animals made up 99% of the biomass 10,000 years ago, but today, humans and their domesticated animals constitute 98% of the biomass.
One hundred sixteen thousand pounds of farm animal excrement is produced every second in the U.S., contributing to massive pollution and waste.
If current trends continue, the oceans could be fishless by 2048 due to overfishing and marine ecosystem destruction.
An acre of rainforest is cleared every second, primarily for grazing livestock and growing feed crops.
If the U.S. switched to grass-fed beef, it would require clearing every inch of land in the U.S., Canada, and parts of Central and South America.
A vegan diet uses significantly fewer resources: it produces half the CO2, uses 1/11th the fossil fuels, 1/13th the water, and 1/18th the land compared to a diet rich in meat, dairy, and eggs.
Each day, choosing a vegan diet can save over 1,100 gallons of water, 45 pounds of grain, 30 square feet of forest, 20 pounds of CO2 emissions, and one animal's life.
Transcripts
you know the world
tell us that the highest
level of emissions would around 350
parts per million of carbon dioxide
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere were
already at 400 they tell us that the
sort of safest we could hope to do
without having perilous implications as
far as drought famine human conflict
major species extinct would it be about
a 2 degrees celsius increase in
temperature we're rapidly approaching
that and with all the built-in carbon
dioxide that's already in the atmosphere
we're easily going to exceed that so on
our watch we are facing the next major
extinction of species on the earth that
we haven't seen since the time of the
dinosaurs disappearing you know when
whole countries go underwater because of
sea level rise when whole countries find
that there's so much drought that they
can't feed their population and as a
result they need to
desperately migrate to another country
or invade another country I mean we're
going to have climate Wars in the future
the post sent me to report online
published by the United Nations stating
that cows produce more greenhouse gases
than the entire transportation sector
this means that raising cattle produces
more greenhouse gases than all cars
trucks trains boats planes combined
thirteen percent compared to eighteen
percent for livestock this is because
cows produce a substantial amount of
methane from their digestive process
methane gas from livestock is 25 to a
hundred times more destructive than
carbon dioxide from vehicles hydraulic
fracturing for natural gas uses an
incredible amount of water a staggering
a hundred billion gallons of waters used
every year in the United States but when
I compare this with animal agriculture
raising livestock just in the u.s.
consumes 34 trillion gallons of water
and it turns out the methane emissions
from both industries are nearly equal I
found out that one quarter pound
hamburger requires over 660 gallons of
water to produce here I've been taking
these short showers trying to save water
and to find out just eating one
hamburger is the equivalent of showering
two entire months so much attention is
given to lowering our home water use yet
domestic water use is only 5% of what is
soon in the US vs fifty-five percent for
animal agriculture that's because it
takes upwards of twenty five hundred
gallons water to produce one pound of
beef there's one study that found that
one pound of beef
2,500 gallons of water yeah yeah um bags
is 477 gallons water and she's almost
900 gallons okay this one simple why
isn't it on save our water just it's
kind of like if you went to someone's
house and my neighbor has a faucet you
know dripping you're doing and then you
see it this giant hose turned full blast
until 660 gallons of water are shooting
out into the street flooding the entire
street I
think I would say hey you know turn that
off please seems like it's a huge thing
that we could be doing by far more than
anything else I started doing more
investigating on the impacts of
livestock and found out this situation
was actually worse than I had thought in
2009 two advisors from the World Bank
released an analysis on human induced
greenhouse gases finding that animal
agriculture was responsible not for
eighteen percent as un stated but was
actually 51 percent of all greenhouse
gases 51% yet all we hear about is
burning fossil fuels this devastating
figure is due to clear cutting
rainforest for grazing respiration and
all the ways to animals produce this
makes animal agriculture the number one
contributor to human caused climate
change but not only that i found out
raising animals for food consumes a
third of all the planets freshwater
occupies up to forty-five percent of the
earth's land is responsible for up to
ninety one-percent of amazon destruction
is a leading cause of species extinction
ocean dead zones and
habitat destruction
yet the world's largest environmental
groups that are supposed to be saving
our world didn't mention this anywhere
so my calculations are that without
using any gas or oil or fuel ever again
from this day forward that we would
still exceed our maximum carbon
equivalent greenhouse gas emissions now
the 565 gigatons by the year twenty
thirty without the electricity sector
even or energy sector even factoring in
the equation all simply by eating
raising and eating livestock if you
reduce the amount of methane emissions
the level when the atmosphere go down
goes down fairly quickly and within
decades as opposed to co2 if you reduce
the emissions to the atmosphere you
don't really see a signal in the
atmosphere for 100 years or so the
single largest contributor to
every known environmental ill known to
humankind deforestation land use water
scarcity the destabilization of
communities world hunger the list
doesn't stop it's an environmental
disaster that's being an ignored by the
very people who should be championing
free living animals made up 10,000 years
ago made up ninety-nine percent of the
biomass and human beings we only made up
one percent of the biomass today only
10,000 years later which is really just
a fraction of time we human beings and
the animals that we own as property make
up ninety-eight percent of the biomass
and wild free living animals make up
only two percent we basically completely
stole in the world the earth from free
living animals to use for ourselves in
our cows and pigs and chickens in
factory farmed fish in the oceans have
been even more
devastated Greenpeace is response
reminded me the statistic that a hundred
and sixteen thousand pounds of farm
animal excrement is produced every
second in the United States alone that
is enough waste per year to cover every
square foot of San Francisco New York
City Tokyo Paris New Delhi Berlin Hong
Kong London Rio de Janeiro Delaware
Valley Costa Rica and and Mark come by
UN reported that three-quarters of the
world's fisheries are overexploited
fully exploited are significantly
depleted due to overfishing the oceans
are under siege like never before and
marine environments are in trouble and
if we don't wake up and do something
about it we're going to see fishless
oceans by the year twenty forty eight
that's the prediction from scientists
the way fishing is done today to feed
the demand for ninety million tons of
fish is primarily through massive fish
nets for every single pound of fish
caught there's up to five pounds of
untargeted species trapped such as
dolphins whales sea turtles and sharks
known as my kill if we were to imagine
this same sort of practice happening on
the African savannah targeting gazelle
but in the process scooping up every
single lion giraffe oestrogen elephant
nobody would stand for it yet this is
what is happening in our oceans every
single day our founder captain Watson
likes to say if the oceans die we die
that's not a tag line that's the truth
perhaps the only other ecosystem that is
being destroyed at such a rapid rate of
the world's rainforests our global
rainforests are essentially the planets
lungs they breathe in co2 and exhale
oxygen an acre of rainforest is cleared
every second and the leading cause is to
graze animals and grow their feet crops
that is essentially an entire football
field cleared every single second and it
is estimated that every day close to a
hundred plant animal and insect species
are lost due to rain forest destruction
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palm oil plantations are causing
tremendous deforestation in Indonesian
rainforest it is estimated that palm oil
is responsible for 26 million acres
being cleared though compared to
livestock in their feed crops they were
responsible for a hundred and thirty six
million acres of rainforest lost today
barca guard model of raising animals
which requires 4,500 acres producing
80,000 pounds of meat the average
American eats 209 pounds of meat per
year that was all grass fed beef only
382 people could be fed on their land
that equates to 11.7 acres per person
times 314 million Americans which equals
3.7 billion acres of grazing land
unfortunately there are only 1.9 billion
acres in the US as lower 48 states
currently nearly half of all United
States land is already dedicated to
animal agriculture if we were to switch
over to grass-fed beef it will require
clearing every square inch of the United
States up into Canada all of Central
America and well into South America and
this is just to feed the United States
demand on meat but that figure doesn't
even take into consideration that much
of that land isn't suited to graze
livestock we would have to convert all
mountain ranges to grassland clear
ancient forests and national parks to
grazing and demolish every city just to
make room to graze cows just like Brazil
the United States isn't suited to meet
the demands for meat turns out due to
land use grass-fed beef is more
unsustainable than even factory farming
I had to come to terms with the fact
there was no way to sustainably raised
enough animals to feed the world's
current demand on meat and had my doubts
on dairy as well but I did want to talk
with a premier organic dairy company to
see if they believe their product was
sustainable for the world's population
but the demand on dairy based protein in
the world is only going to increase and
there's not enough land on the planet to
do this type of daring around the world
that it's just the environment is not
going to be that way the lands are not
there so I guess on a global scale a
conclusion of the dairy is not
sustainable
unless we start digging up houses and
putting pastures back how could cow's
milk be sustainable for when one gallon
of milk it takes upwards of a thousand
gallons of water to produce
when you really look at who's benefiting
and who's lobbied for this system of
Agriculture it's the largest food
producers in the country and the largest
meat producers and once they become so
large and wealthy than they can dictate
the federal policies around producing
food because they have so much political
power
the animal agriculture industry is one
of the most powerful industries on the
planet I think most people in this
country are aware of the influence of
money and Industry on politics and we
really see that clearly on this play
with this industry in particular most
people would be shocked to learn that
animal rights and environmental
activists are the number one domestic
terrorism threat according to the FBI
some people would say the problem isn't
really animal agriculture but actually
human overpopulation
in 1812 there are 1 billion people on
the planet in 1912 their 1.5 billion
then just 100 years later our population
exploded 27 billion humans this number
is rightly given a great deal of
attention but an even more important
figure when determining world population
is the world 70 billion farm animals
humans raise
the human population drinks 5.2 billion
gallons of water everyday needs 21
billion pounds of food but just the
world's 1.5 billion cows alone drink 45
billion gallons of water every day and
eat a hundred and thirty five billion
pounds of food this isn't so much a
human population issue it's a human
eating animals population issue
environmental organizations not
addressing this is like health
organizations trying to stop lung cancer
without addressing cigarette smoking but
instead of second-hand smoking it's
secondhand eating which affects the
entire planet we're growing enough food
right now in the world to feed between
12 and 15 billion people we only have
seven billion people we have roughly a
billion people starving every single day
worldwide fifty percent of the grain and
legumes that were growing we're feeding
the animals so they're eating huge
amounts of green and legumes in the
United States it's more like closer to
70 80 depending on which grain it is
ninety of ninety percent of the soybean
eighty-two percent of the world's
starving children live in countries
where food is fed to animals in the
livestock systems that are then killed
and eaten by more well off individuals
in developed countries is even possible
to be a healthy vegetarian or vegan is
the possibility a healthy vegetarian or
vegan I
became vegan for see 32 years ago now
and I run several miles every day I go
biking 40 50 miles through the
countryside I work long hours I feel
great it's nice waking up in a light
trim body every day and so many of my
vegan friends in patients you know are
just you know they're thriving as since
their transition to a vegan diet so yes
and I've seen vegan moms go through
healthy vegan pregnancies and deliver
healthy vegan children and raise them
into tall full-size intelligent vegan
adults and yes certainly all the
nutrients are they are in the plant
kingdom to do this that is correct I
think anyone should be
consuming dairy I really don't when you
think about it the purpose of cow's milk
I did most of my growing up on a dairy
farm in Wisconsin
the purpose of cow's milk is to turn a
65 pound calf into a 400 pound cow as
rapidly as possible
cow's milk is baby calf growth fluid
that's what the stuff is
everything in that white liquid the
hormone so lipids the proteins of sodium
the growth factors that I GF all every
one of those is meant to blow their calf
up to a great big cow it wouldn't be
there and whether you poured on your
cereal is a liquid whether you clot it
into yogurt whether you've it into
cheese whether you freeze it into ice
cream its baby calf growth fluid and
women eat it and it stimulates their
tissues and gives women breast lumps it
makes the uterus get big and they get
five words and they bleed in the gay
hysterectomy and they need mammograms
and and gives guys man boobs this is
cow's milk is the lactation secretions
of a large bovine mammal who just had a
baby it's for baby calves you know I
tell my patient go look at the mirror
now do you have big ears you have a tail
are you baby calf if you're not don't be
eaten baby calf growth through it in in
any level there's nothing in it people
need to feed a person on an all
plant-based vegan diet for a year
requires just one-sixth of an acre of
land to feed that same person on a
vegetarian diet that includes eggs and
dairy requires three times as much land
to feed an average u.s. citizens high
consumption diet of meat dairy and eggs
requires 18 times as much land this is
because you can produce
37,000 pounds of vegetables on one and a
half acres but only 375 pounds of meat
on that same plot of land I also learned
the comparison doesn't end with land use
a vegan diet produces half as much co2
as an American omnivore uses 111th the
amount of fossil fuels 113th the amount
of water and an 18th of the amount of
land after adding this all up I realized
I had the choice every single day to
save over 1,100 gallons of water 45
pounds of grain 30 square feet of
forested land the equivalent 20 pounds
of co2 and one animal's life every
single day
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