These wastes are 10 to several hundred times more highly concentrated than raw domestic sewage . The rainforests are rapidly being destroyed. Fastfood hamburger chains import cheap beef from countries who cut down rainforests and graze cattle on the land. Over half of the agricultural land in the U.S. is planted with crops to feed live stock. The modern high-tech farming methods used to produce this livestock feed are also producing soil erosion, water pollution, groundwater depletion, and energy waste.
Meat is a land and energy intensive food.
Twenty vegetarians can be fed on the amount of land that it takes to feed one meat eater. It takes 16 pounds of protien-rich grain and soybeans fed to cattle to produce only one pound of beef. That grain can be fed to the starving people on earth, but instead it is used to produce meat for those who can afford it in the Western World. Please read it.