flashcards_environment_briefing

Question 1

Where would you find the briefing titled ‘The Environmental Impact of Animal Agriculture?’

Answer 1

vbriefings.org/environment

Question 2

What is the briefing titled ‘The Environmental Impact of Animal Agriculture?’ about?

Answer 2

Animal agriculture is recognized by scientists as a major driver of environmental destruction, contributing significantly to global warming, habitat destruction, deforestation, and other environmental issues.

Question 3

What are the key points in the environment briefing?

Answer 3

1. Scientists, institutions, and experts agree about the severe destructive impact of animal agriculture.
2. Vegan diets have by far the smallest environmental footprint.
3. Animal agriculture plays a major role, if not the major role, in global warming.
4. Animal agriculture is strongly implicated in habitat loss, deforestation, desertification, water waste, air pollution, and excrement contamination.
5. Biomass distribution figures put animal agriculture’s dominance of the planet in perspective.
6. The root cause of animal agriculture’s environmental harms is its extreme inefficiency.