Top Water Polluter May Surprise You

Lol Sydney- You have your facts a little messed up. How do you think plants grew before we turned the earth into a cattle-production machine? Manure is actually a very poor fertilizer that is lacking in nutrients. The best soil comes from plant-based compost. Think about it: most of the nutrients are taken out of the food during digestion for the animal to live off of, before their waste is discarded as droppings. It's also unsanitary: it's the reason we can catch e.coli and other diseases by eating unwashed veggies. So then why do we use it? Because it's waste. And thanks to our country's (and world's) over-consumption of meat and dairy products, it's practically infinite and very very cheap. The run-off from this incredibly insufficient "fertilizer" pollutes our real food and water and world. If the world went vegan... Well, most people already choose to die rather than give up meat, so this will not happen unless vegans ban together and commit some sort of carnivore genocide, but that's beside the point... If the world went vegan, just referring to fertilization methods alone, we'd have to learn to compost our food waste, and as a result, there'd be so much less of it rotting in landfills, which would be another blessing, no food-borne diseases at all, our total global pollution would probably be cut in half, and the earth would be much closer to an equilibrium. The jobs that were taken out of the dairy and meat industries could be turned into composting jobs, which would probably be much more sanitary and rewarding, seeing as they would no longer be killing for a living. Prices of food may increase at first, but overall costs to our quality of life, etc would greatly decrease, making for an enriched planet. Plus, we'd probably be spending about the same if you compare it to when we bought meat. Ahhh if only such a world could exist...

What else is needed for people to wake up and see what the meat industry does to the planet? Its truly amazing that an intelligent species like humans can be so dumb.

The article states- "Farmers typically spread chicken waste on open fields or cropland". Poultry and livestock manures are very common form of fertilizers, used in growing crops. There are two types of fertilizers: natrual and synthetic. Most natrual fertilizer are composted manure, a bi-product of the meat, milk and egg industrys. These natural fertilized are proven to be far safer for the environment than the synthetic types. If the world went vegan we obviously would have no livestock. No livestock = no manure. So a vegan world would mean a massive drop in our fertilizer supply. And yet we would need more fertilizer than ever before if the entire wold went vegan. This is due the fields of pasture used to graze animals being converted into crop land. I would like to hear some views on this from vegans... What is your plan for fertilize in a vegan world? Thank you!!