2. As a species, we need to be smarter.
We need to create a world where we use natural
resources in a more efficient way.
We need to ensure these resources are fairly distributed,
and that everyone on this planet, both today and
tomorrow, has access to safe, sufficient, sustainable
food.
Magda Stoczkiewicz
18. “It is an acknowledged truth, that
pasture land produces a smaller
quantity of human subsistence than
corn land of the same fertility”
-Thomas Robert Malthus
31. To produce one kilogram of oven dry wheat grain, it
takes 715 - 750 litres of water
For 1 kg maize, 540 - 630 litres
For 1 kg soybeans, 1650 - 2200 litres
For 1 kg paddy rice, 1550 litres
For 1 kg beef, 50,000 - 100,000 litres
For 1 kg clean wool, 170,000 litres
47. “The biggest threat to wildlife is from the habitat loss and
degradation caused by humanity’s expanding footprint.
The greatest single impact in sheer area comes from clearing
forests and woodlands for agriculture, primarily for the
creation of pastures for livestock “
52. “Habitat loss is identified as a main threat to
85 per cent of all species described in the
IUCN's Red Lists - species officially classified
as "threatened" and "endangered.”
IUCN (World Conservation Union)
53.
54. “Habitat modification and loss, species extinctions and range
contractions, depletion of ecological communities, land and
water degradation, salinisation, accelerated soil erosion, and
nutrient loss have been experienced most severely in the
agricultural and grazing sectors of the country “
55.
56. Grazing/Pastures:
- Soil compaction
- Loss of plant cover (native)
- Alter fire regimes
- Loss of soil structure (riparian zones)
- Competition for native grazing animals
- Increasing nutrient cycling (waste)
60. “Though the extreme rates of land clearing that
placed Australia in the top 10 land clearing nations in
the world have reduced over the past 5 years, we are
still clearing much more native vegetation than is
being replanted or that is regenerating naturally”
Bush Heritage
61.
62. 80% of land adjacent is used for agriculture,
primarily beef
Beef cattle grazing is the largest single land use
with approximately 4,500,000 cattle grazing in
the Great Barrier Reef Catchment
72% of the reef’s hard coral has died since the
1960′s
Fine silt (the major coral killer), over 75% of
which comes from grazing lands
63.
64. “Animal products cause more damage than
[producing] construction minerals such as
sand or cement, plastics or metals. Biomass
and crops for animals are as damaging as
[burning] fossil fuels”
Professor Edgar Hertwich,
United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) international panel of sustainable resource management
79. “Most birds that are already
threatened are also ‘climate-change
susceptible’ and so face an even more
uncertain future”
Birdlife International
80. “The way we manage our land has an impact
on biodiversity. If we get it wrong
biodiversity is driven into decline, but if we
get it right we reverse the trends”
Birdlife Europe
81.
82. “Our results suggest that any level of
commercial livestock grazing is detrimental”
83. Species absence at high levels of grazing (20%),
An increase in abundance with increasing grazing(18%)
When trees were not cleared, a rich and abundant bird fauna can
coexist with moderate levels of grazing.
High levels of grazing resulted in a species-poor bird assemblage
dominated by birds that are increasing in abundance nationally
84.
85.
86.
87.
88.
89.
90.
91.
92.
93.
94. “While our work and that of others demonstrates that livestock grazing can have
deleterious impacts on birds, particularly at high levels, overall a rich and abundant
bird fauna has been able to persist in extensively managed grazed grassy eucalypt
woodland despite 200 years of livestock grazing”
95. “BirdLife Australia opposes the grazing of native vegetation by domestic
livestock (and/or activities associated with maintaining a grazing herd)
where it has a detrimental impact on bird populations.”
“For every 10 per cent increase in tree cover, bird diversity increased by 7
per cent. At the same time, exotic birds decreased by 21 per cent.”
96. • Livestock compete directly with native birds for food, water and
other resources.
• Other effects include alteration of vegetation structure and
floristics (for example promoting a profusion of grazing-
resistant native shrubs),
• Trampling (including of nests), erosion and degradation of
soils, watercourses and wetlands
• Lack of recruitment of non grazing-resistant woody
vegetation (trees and shrubs)
• Nutrient and surface water flow regimes.
104. “Livestock production is one of the major
causes of the world’s most pressing
environmental problems, including global
warming, land degradation, air and water
pollution, and loss of biodiversity”
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
105.
106.
107.
108.
109.
110. A person who follows a plant based
diet PRODUCES
• 50% less carbon dioxide,
• 1/11th oil,
• 1/3rd waste
• 1/13th water,
• 1/18th land
compared to a meat-eater for their
food.
111.
112. “Nothing increase chances for survival
of life on Earth as much as the
evolution to a vegetarian diet”
-ALBERT EINSTEIN
113. “It is easier to change a
man's religion than his diet.”
-MARGARET MEAD
