Earthsave Canada’s submission highlights the serious damage that animal agriculture does to the environment, including through greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, water pollution, biodiversity loss, and inefficient use of land and water resources.
The government’s effort to support and accelerate innovation in plant-based foods is exciting and welcome news, as the evidence overwhelmingly shows that producing protein from plants takes far less land, water and energy than producing protein from animals, and of course spares animals from the cruelties inherent in animal agriculture.
The relationship between animal consumption and human illness is well established. The widespread adoption of a plant-based (vegan) diet could protect us against future pandemics.
Still, what really matters is can they FEEL. Do they EXPERIENCE. Essentially all animals must. We've linked to this article here: mastodon.social/@EarthsaveCanada/116715857604125355
This article well describes the horrors we subject incomprehensibly enormous numbers of innocents to each and every day. It's shocking that, in the end, it
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Rice feeds a lot more people than beef and dairy - and overall emissions are lower than from them, but they're sadly in the same
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