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• Such important information, Hannah! Thanks for putting this together. I've shared it on my Edible Musings FB page, and will continue to circulate it. Every day should be Earth Day!

• So true Lauren! <3 And thank you!

• Don't forget, the millions of baby animals killed as newborns (male chicks) or just a few days or weeks old or months old (male baby dairy calves), sometimes female beef cows are sent to slaughter, because they just want to keep the males, that have more muscle mass, so they can get a uniform price for them.

  Don't forget, "runt" piglets, that have their heads bashed on concrete, in an attempt to kill them, or the fact that female dairy calves don't escape pain either, when they have their horn buds burned off without any pain killers, or all the male land "meat" mammals, that are castrated without pain killers, or hens, who's beak tips are burned off.

  Eating Dairy and eggs, is just as cruel as the lives of "meat", animals, and actually even more cuel, as babies die, enslaved mothers mourn, and then they die too, the same happens for chickens, the male chicks die, the females chicks have their beaks burned off, and they're then thrown into tiny cages their whole lives, or into warehouses 30,000 at a time, then they're killed too.

  There's so much suffering, pollution, and land and water wastage, habitat destruction, and the persecution and eradication of wild species, for something that is not economical.

  There would be enough resources, to feed the world population, if the "meat" animals and their feed crops, just disappeared.

  There would be enough land, to house the homeless, and for reforestation, and habitat and native wild animal population restorations.

  Also, don't forget the costs of "wildlife" services personnel, who go around killing wildlife by the hundreds and thousands. so they won't bother livestock, or take resources from them.

  There's also huge ocean dead zones, from feed crop fertilizer run off, and super weeds and pests because of all the chemical herbicides and pesticides.

  There's crop contamination, from GMO pollen transfer, and field workers and their families, which get sick, and human babies born with birth defects, and farmer suicides after GMOhybrid crop failures.

  So, with all of this, farmed animals as a food sources, has a monumental cost, in many different ways, all of which could be stopped, if animals stopped being bred to die, and instead, diverse, organic plant crops were raised instead.