Vegetarian
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Aside from animal rights issues being vegetarian, or at least mostly vegetarian, has enormous value to the environment, social justice and the vegetarian's health.
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How vegetarianism reduces deforestation
what per cent of agricultural land in the third world is turned over to growing Soy for cattle feed products land clearance in S.america for cattle ranches, to convert into beef burgers.
How vegetarianism reduces overfishing
How small fish and bycatch are used to make fishmeal which is fed to livestock as a cheap source of protein and often to enhance the amount of healthy omega-3 oils in an animals flesh.
e.g.1 poultry industry in the UK being fed Atlantic sand eels and the lack of sand eels causing the Scotland's puffin populations to plummet. e.g.2 Pigs in China eating more fish from the Pacific than the whole of Australia.
How vegetarianims makes it possible to feed the world
need to find the basic math to illustrate how much energy it take to grow cropX feed it to cattle Y and then to human Z versus how much cropX needed to feed human Z
