Consequences of a meat orientated diet

...An increasing part of the changes in climate caused by man is due to the mass keeping of livestock. Only the 1.3 billion cattle kept worldwide produce over 100 millions tons of methane gas yearly....

Source: Consequences of a meat orientated diet
Author: Swiss Union for Vegetarianism - photo Sebastian Karkus/pixelio.de

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