This Is Vegan Propaganda (& Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

by Ed Winters

Alarmingly, one study reports that 96 per cent of mammal biomass is now just humans and farmed animals.39 It is startling that humans only make up 0.01 per cent of the Earth’s total biomass and yet we have caused the loss of 83 per cent of all wild mammals, 80 per cent of marine mammals and half of all plants. Half of the Earth’s animals are thought to have been lost in the last 50 years alone. At the same time, the number of animals that we are breeding into existence keeps growing all the time. So, we are now living through a biodiversity crisis, while paradoxically creating more and more farm animals. Of course, these animals are products of years of selective breeding and artificial insemination and are not bred for the sake of the planet but instead for our dinner plates. The problem is so immense that research published by the Royal Society has stated that animal farming has changed the global biosphere to the point where future archaeologists and historians will define our current time through the fossilised remains of the mass of farmed animals that they will find.40