Accepting Facts

LET'S BEGIN WITH a few irrefutable facts. The agriculture industry, specifically the cattle industry, generates, more green house emissions every year than all the cars, trucks, trains, ships, and planes in the world combined. Shocking though it seems, this is a fact, not debatable. Its really very easy to measure, and to prove, and has been and continues to be measured and proven daily, which means that conservatives double down on refusing to believe it, calling it, along with climate change, "a hoax". Whatever contradicts their ideology, like elections results and environmental devastation, conservatives can be counted on to refuse to accept, preferring to live in their self made fantasy worlds, including a fantasy world in which we can "bring back coal" without harm. Tragic, but true. The fecal waste and flatulance from cattle produce at least thirty two million tons of carbon dioxide per year, or fifty one percent of global CO2 emissions. Cattle also produce sixty five percent of the world's nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas hundreds times more powerful thatn carbon dioxide. More than half the water used in the United States every year is used to grow feed to feed live stock. Eighty percent of the world's soy bean crop is used to feed ivestock, and the Amazon rain forest is being rapidly destroyed to clear land to grow soy beans to feed cattle. Why not simply eat the soy beans ourselves? By growing soy beans on land presently used to raise cattle, we could easily feed the entire world, and let the world's rain forests thrive, untouched by humanity. Forty five percent of the world's land mass is used specifically to raise cattle. That seems like a bit much, eh? In the United States seventy percent of the grain we grow is used to feed cattle for human consumption, even while more than six million children starve to death every year world wide. Disastrous human economic inefficiency, resulting from and bad policies stemming from harmful cultural values, such as the American cultural proclivity for eating beef. The natural resources used to make animal products, including food, cannot be economically or morally justified in our time of climate change and scarcity. therefore humanity, especially American humanity, must continue the fledgling trend towards vegeterianism, including artificial meat substitutes. If not everyone, a huge percentage of people who try a vegetarian product called "Impossible burger", for example, love it, because it tastes for all the world like the best black angus beef around. "Ipossible Burger" may be gotten at the big corporationn called "Burger King", and at the even larger corporation called "Wal Mart". The trick is to get all of humanity hooked on foods like "Impossible Burger" while simultaneously creating a society and economy in which the working people have power, not our current oligarchy of big corporations, but, as they say, that's another story. The real sotry is that we humans must change our habits, fast.