All disappeared a few months after I became a vegan. All disappeared when I stopped eating dairy. About a month ago, at a fair a little north of Albany, an outbreak of e-coli caused the death of three and hospitalized over a 1,000. It came from underground water which had a run off from a cow farm close by. This is common.
Environmental pollution is astronomical.
Production of excrement by U.S. livestock is 230,000 lbs. Water pollution , caused by U.S. livestock, including runoff of soil, pesticides and manure is greater than all municipal and industrial sources combined. Actually half of all the water used in the U.S. is for livestock production. Raising animals is not only detrimental to water pollution, it is using up our top soil from livestock grazing and completely destroying many rainforests. E-coli and Salmonella poisoning is running rampant in this country today, hardly a week goes by that you don't read about another outbreak.