Climate Change: The Evolution Of Animal Agriculture In California

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The evolution of Animal Agriculture in California and all over the world is causing impacts on water, air quality, and drought. According to Livestock and Climate Change, “What if the key actors in Climate Change are.. cows, pigs, and chickens?” by Robert Goodland and Jeff Anhang published November/December 2009. Imagen “7,516 million tons of CO2 per year attribute to livestock.” It’s hard to believe that a single burger uses up three trillion tons of water. Made me feel upset because I would always hear, “save water”. Even Though, daily I made sure to take short showers or use a small cup to brush my teeth. Suddenly, when I read the articles I knew what I was doing wasn’t enough, how could it be enough when my few water that I wasted was nothing …show more content…
Which in fact, air pollution in China is causing 4,400 deaths every single day. Also, “1.6 million people in China die every year from health issues caused by the country’s notoriously polluted air”(Mosbergen 2015). This can happen to us if we continue to eat meat meat everyday. Even Though, I understand how difficult it can be to have grown up to eat meat daily and how difficult it is to stop or eat less of it. We were presented a video in class about the Animal Agriculture, strongly argued how the meat industry is affecting us immensely. I could relate to this young man because he focused mainly on wasting less water, or using his bicycle everywhere. Somehow he wanted to do more then just save water and ride his bicycle. So he then began to research more about companies that mainly focused on saving water. Suddenly, he than realized that these companies didn’t mention anything about Animal Agriculture when being asked. Questioning himself about how can they say “save water”, but in reality trillions and trillions of water are being wasted. Which is also the cause of drought and not only that but they are cutting down forest to plant farms. Not to mention, a tragic story where a elder who loved her forest was brutally shot. This is how far things have got that who know what