while reading about a future film, Lovemeatender, the producers shared some interesting facts…

Until now, road traffic, fossil fuel and industry have been blamed for global warming and most often the influence of intensive agriculture used for the raising of livestock and other animals has been “passed over”.

However, 18% of greenhouse gases are emitted by livestock and animal farming which is more than air and road transport combined.

Today, demographic trends and increased wealth are creating more demand for meat in the world.  In 2000, 229 million tonnes of meat were comsumed and this is expected to rise to 465 million tonnes in 2050.  India and China are two of the countries showing huge growth in demand…..

Even if it were possible to satisfy this increased demand from around 6 to 8 billion people, which it is not, the impact on our environment would be catastrophic.

Most people are unaware of this and all the economic, ethical and ecological issues that this involves.

Therefore it is imperative that as many people as possible are informed and understand the issues in order to achieve a change of mind-set and behaviour.