Many nonvegetarians and some vegetarians alike question whether being a vegetarian really makes any difference at all. Some bring up blurry ethical situations to make it impossible to see a vegetarian lifestyle as ethical.
If you are a prospective vegetarian for ethical reasons, but aren’t sure whether or not a vegetarian lifestyle is truly a more ethical choice, here are some statistics from EarthSave to help you make your choice (for or against):
1. Over 1.3 billion human beings could be fed each year from the grain and soybeans that go to livestock in the United States.
This means that the entire population of the United States could be fed (without losing any nutritional value) and there would still be enough food left over to feed one billion people.
In a world where millions of people die each year of starvation, that type of food excess and inefficiency could be considered unethical.
2. Livestock in the US produces roughly 30 times more excrement than human beings. While humans in the US have complex sewage systems to collect and treat human waste, there are no such systems on feedlots. As a result, most of this waste leeches...
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