#our consumption fuels atrocities daily

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i could go into how tumblr promotes OCD tendencies for hours but i'll address one thing: the ethics of media consumption. for some, pirating media by problematic creators and being critical of the source material is not enough.

almost as if the source itself will lead to moral decay by merit of its problematic elements or creators, consuming verboten media is said to be a reflection of the consumer's morality. in psychology, we call this emotional contamination--a symptom typically associated with OCD.

this is often reflected in "X fans DNI". i don't know about you, but the idea that someone can be labeled as complicit in violence and therefore untouchable simply for engaging with certain media in a critical manner without supporting the creators is a tad frightening.

[june-of-two-thousand-seventeen]

How Climate Change and Meat/Dairy Consumption are interlinked

I wrote this piece for my university’s student-run newspaper. I thought I would share the article here as well.

The increasing levels of global warming have been hailed as one of the greatest threats to humanity and the environment. For years, industrialization and urbanization are believed to be the culprits of the climatic changes. 

While this true, food production has been a very overlooked part when it comes to narrowing down the significant factors responsible. Recent reports and studies have concluded that there is a link between the production of meat, dairy, consumption of animal-based foods and climate change. The production of pork, beef, chicken, and milk is one of the key factors which is causing environmental pollution, deforestation, and rising levels of methane gases, all contributing to an increase in global warming. To be sustainable and conscious individuals of the modern world, it is essential to understand how the food we eat daily is causing a detrimental effect on our climate.

So how does meat affect the climate?

This is the most common question which people ask and is a crucial one. The consumption of certain foods and their adverse impact on climate change may sound absurd at first but it is a genuine statement and is backed up by facts and research.

The animal agricultural industry uses factory farming as its primary method of rearing animals for meat. Factory farms require a vast expanse of land space to keep several thousands of pigs, chickens, turkeys, lambs, and dairy cows who are routinely killed using brutal methods. To house the animals in factory farms, acres of forested land is cleared, one of the leading causes of deforestation and raising warming levels. Livestock produces methane in substantial quantities through the digestion of food. Nitrous oxide, another greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide is produced from the manure of cow which contains significantly higher levels of nitrous oxide than most animals.

The wastes produced from the animals are also responsible for the pollution of soil, water, and air.

Nitrogen and ammonia are significant contributors to water pollution through the wastes of farmed animals. The nature of meat production is highly energy-intensive as it requires several stages, from keeping the animals fed, slaughtered, the processing, transportation, and storage of the meat. All these activities require intense energy and extensive use of water. Loss of biodiversity, increasing greenhouse gases, damage to forests, overuse of fossil fuels, excess wastes and water pollution are all major problems associated with the use of animal-based products.

Why should we reduce the consumption of meat and dairy?

The reduction of meat and dairy products is one of the significant ways to fight climate change. Studies conducted by researchers have shown that an individual who consumes animal-based products has a higher carbon footprint than someone who consumes vegan foods. Following a vegan diet can help lower the levels of greenhouse gas emissions significantly.

Plant-based milk such as almond, oat, soy, cashew, hemp, and rice require lesser amounts of water than cow’s milk and have a smaller carbon footprint than the latter. In a research study conducted by Martins Heller of the University of Michigan in 2014, the findings revealed almond and soy milk to have 174 and 200 grams per C02 of carbon footprint while the cow's milk had 400 grams per C02.

Reduction of meat consumption would lead to less supply which would automatically mean that fewer areas of forested land would be cleared to create space for farming. Less use of meat and dairy products will lead to the restoration of forests, cause less pollution and reduce the amount of greenhouse gases responsible for the increase in global warming.

The achievement?

Reducing animal products will also help millions of animals who suffer severe torture and atrocities at the hands of humans. Animals are sentient beings like humans who form friendships, relationships, have families, can think and feel pain. By choosing to leave animal flesh off the table, we can help reduce the devastating impacts on the climate and environment, spare innocent beings from unnecessary suffering and live a much healthier life.

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The Degradation We Wear on our Sleeves

I stress about my clothes, greatly. Not so much what they say, or people’s perception of them, I dress pretty conservatively for the most part.  I stress about their quality, not only the strength of their fibers but the strength of their morals. I have a huge and real moral dilemma when it comes to buying new clothes, and often this means wearing through the few thrift store finds, watching them age from acceptable to tattered rags. In this essay I wrote for my environmental literature class, I explore the clothing industry through the lens of the concept of “Slow Violence” (See Rob Nixon) (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021909613495648?journalCode=jasa) and will hopefully give some context  as to why I feel the way I do about clothing. 

Bare with me for a moment.

Take a look at the shirt you’re wearing. Inspect it. Look at the stitchings and feel the material between your fingers. What does it feel like? Solid? Bargain? Now ask yourself, where did that shirt come from? No, not the Macey’s or other store where you bought it, but where did it originate? Where did it take shape? In what country did the maker do as you just did and feel the fabric between their fingers as they stitched the lines that hold your garment? A simple turn of the tag may reveal to you probably one of a host of familiarly distant names. But the story that isn’t told through the tag, one even more ingrained in the fabric, is that of the environmental and working conditions that person who created your fancy threads is subjected to as a result of careless consumerism; a mindset that perpetuated in the garment you now wear. This mindset, made acceptable by years of rich consumers demanding more for less, has resulted in these countries that produce our clothing bearing the burden of our demand for cheaper costs. Forced labor, environmental destabilizing, as well as other atrocities are side effects of this floor driving mindset, but one of the worst atrocities of them all is that for the most part, these clearly unethical business practices that we stimulate, go unnoticed or unreported by the mainstream conscious. The fact remains that outside of a handful of interested activists and documentary filmmakers, the issues surrounding our clothing consumption aren’t immediate to our lives and don’t generate enough sensationalist news to create any real long lasting efforts to change our consumer habits, ones  that cause the degradation of the environments and lives of garment workers.  This distancing of ourselves from the destruction we perpetuate every time we buy bargain clothing, whether intentional or not, puts the effects of our mindless consumer habits in line with Rob Nixon’s theories presented in his book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor.  The long lasting environmental degradation being done by continually lowering the floor on our clothing prices as seen through practices such as “fast fashion”, the way that so quickly massively destructive instances like the Rana Plaza building collapse disappear from the public consciousness, the unflinching resolve in our mindless consumer habits, these are all examples of how we cognitively disconnect ourselves from the atrocities that make our clothing, and turn any of the issues that result from the practices into issues of “slow violence”.

What is perhaps the most measurable indicator of the “violence” in the “slow violence” of our consumer habits, is the environmental degradation of these industrial countries being funded by our shopping sprees and insatiable need for weekly wardrobe changes. The countries supplying the world with many of it’s clothes, China, India, and Bangladesh, have earned their spots as clothing producing capitals as a result of their extremely low environmental and working standards, allowing them to conduct business with low interference from regulators. This is not news, it’s a well acknowledged fact by most of the public consciousness. But with that information in mind, most consumers still don’t give a second thought as to how their actions could be perpetuating these poor working and environmental standards.  People often wax on about the environmental issues facing their local states, in California brown lawns have become a sign of environmental consciousness, while shorter showers and intentionally dirty cars are becoming a popular “statement”. But yet, fewer consider the fact that some 2,700 gallons of water is used in producing an average cotton shirt, as estimated by studies collected from the World Wildlife Fund, and even fewer will take into account that more than 20 percent of the world's clothing is produced in areas deemed “water scarce” by the environmental collaboration Growing Blue. Even more striking is the International Food Policy Research Institute study which Growing Blue cites, stating that due to continued overuse of freshwater, that some “4.8 billion people – more than half the world’s population – and approximately half of global grain production” as well as “45% of total GDP ($63 trillion)”  will be at risk of collapsing due to instability caused by water stress by 2050. This means that not only will wasteful practices as a result of our clothing addiction affect our own economy in the future, but by forcing the burden of production on these water scarce countries, we are contributing to an impending catastrophic collapse of these countries economies, all for the luxury of a wardrobe change.

Elizabeth Cline delves into the mindset that perpetuates careless consumerism in her book Overdressed : The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, in which she focuses on the subject of “Fast Fashion”. Fast Fashion she describes as an industry move where retailers put out exorbitants fashionable clothing “constantly throughout the year” as opposed to the traditional seasonal fashions, at a bottom line price “much lower than its competitors” that succeeds only by “selling an unprecedented amount of clothing” and can “only give us low prices if consumers continue to buy new clothes as soon as they’re on the floor.”  She points to stores like H&M and Zara as some of the biggest culprits, contributing to our 20 billion a year garment addiction in America alone.  These stores that supply us with our clothing fix, not surprisingly, base nearly all of their operations in developing countries like ones mentioned above, who provide clothing at the lower and lower prices that are perpetuated by our fast fashion consumer habits, at the expense of worker and environmental regulations.

This creates a horrible cycle, where a garment manufacturer produces an exorbitant amount of clothing at rock bottom pricing, to be bought up a these fast fashion retailer, only for them to turn around demand a lower price on the already low garments in order for them to undercut their competition, forcing the manufacturer to cut costs again, to produce an even cheaper product, on the back of their “employees” and the the neighboring environment. All the while, we are the ones perpetuating this business practice, funding it, demanding it, without acknowledging the downward spiral which we are sliding. This sort of cognitive dissonance allows for us as a population to turn blind eyes to terrible tragedies such as the Rana Plaza building collapse in 2013, where a Bangladeshi garment manufacturing building, due to negligence by the owners, collapsed and took with it some 1,100 people, more than a third of those killed in the 9/11 attacks. And as if it were any surprise, of the retailers who were being supplied by this particular building? H&M and Zara were some of the biggest buyers. And yet, only some three years removed from this incident, one doubts whether any of the people lined up outside these stores on a daily basis are aware of this, as the story of this tragedy faded from our public attention in a matter of weeks.

This distancing oneself from the clear connection of their clothing and the destruction that it causes, or “willful ignorance” was studied by a group of researchers in a study published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology that asked if “less ethical consumers denigrate more ethical consumers” as a means of justifying their own consumer habits. What they found was that “consumers who willfully ignore ethical product attributes denigrate other, more ethical consumers who seek out and use this information” because of a perceived “self-threat inherent in negative social comparison with others who acted ethically”. This perceived “self-threat” felt by the “denigrators” was also shown to have further consequences in “undermining the denigrator's commitment to ethical values, as evidenced by reduced anger toward firms who violate the ethical principle”, meaning they reacted with ambivalence toward companies who acted unethically in their business model.  This unconscious reaction contributes directly to the problem at hand with the unacknowledged ethical travesties being committed in the garment industry. This shows that not only has our clothing consumption and culture come to accept unethical practices as the norm, but also stigmatizes people who choose to shop in an ethical fashion, further hindering efforts to bring to light the problems we create and perpetuate by our mindless spending.  

As a consumer culture, it’s imperative that we engage in open discourse about our consumer habits, and the wide ranging effects of our actions in perpetuating environmentally unstable and atrocious living conditions for the people who are forced to work in the factories that make our weekly deals. We need to recognize that we are teetering on the brink is an impending crash, and we are the ones fueling it. We need to see the wastefulness in our mindless consumer culture, and shift our perception of clothing back to where it was 50 years ago, in a time where we bought less and cared more. It is time for us to stand up hold ourselves accountable for our the slow violence we are subjecting these countries to.

*The Hidden Costs of Water” World Wildlife Fund,  http://www.wwf.org.uk/what_we_do/rivers_and_lakes/the_hidden_cost_of_water.cfm 

*Water in 2050” Growing Blue, http://growingblue.com/water-in-2050/ . 

*Elizabeth, Cline, Overdressed the Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, New York : Penguin Group, 2013, 85-88.

Julfikar Ali Manik,Nida Najar, “Bangladesh Police Charge 41 With Murder Over Rana Plaza Collapse”, “New York Times”  June 1, 2015.  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/world/asia/bangladesh-rana-plaza-murder-charges.html

Daniel M. Zane, Julie R. Irwin, Rebecca Walker Reckzek, “Do less ethical consumers denigrate more ethical consumers? The effect of willful ignorance on judgments of others”, Journal of Consumer Psychology, 21, October, 2015. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057740815001011

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what percentage of water on earth is available for human use

what percentage of water on earth is available for human use

Hello dear friends, thank you for choosing us. In this post on the solsarin site, we will talk about “  what percentage of water on earth is available for human use“. Stay with us. Thank you for your choice.

A Clean Water Crisis

The water you drink today has likely been around in one form or another since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, hundreds of millions of years ago.

While the amount of freshwater on the planet has remained fairly constant over time—continually recycled through the atmosphere and back into our cups—the population has exploded. This means that every year competition for a clean, copious supply of water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and sustaining life intensifies.

Water scarcity is an abstract concept to many and a stark reality for others. It is the result of myriad environmental, political, economic, and social forces.

Freshwater

Freshwater makes up a very small fraction of all water on the planet. While nearly 70 percent of the world is covered by water, only 2.5 percent of it is fresh. The rest is saline and ocean-based. Even then, just 1 percent of our freshwater is easily accessible, with much of it trapped in glaciers and snowfields. In essence, only 0.007 percent of the planet’s water is available to fuel and feed its 6.8 billion people.

Due to geography, climate, engineering, regulation, and competition for resources, some regions seem relatively flush with freshwater, while others face drought and debilitating pollution. In much of the developing world, clean water is either hard to come by or a commodity that requires laborious work or significant currency to obtain.

Water Is Life

Wherever they are, people need water to survive. Not only is the human body 60 percent water, the resource is also essential for producing food, clothing, and computers, moving our waste stream, and keeping us and the environment healthy.

What is the Percentage of Drinkable Water on Earth?

With merely 5% of the ocean floor having been discovered and mapped, and with the deepest part reaching almost 7 miles, water seems to be as abundant as it is ominous.

Yet, it wouldn’t take much of the mineral-rich ocean to dehydrate a human being if consumed. The amount of sodium in seawater is much more concentrated than what the body can safely process, requiring more water as salt is consumed. Eventually, death would come as a result of dehydration without ever having the thirst quenched (Ocean Service).

Of the waters occupying 70%

Of the waters occupying 70% of the earth’s surface, only 3% is considered freshwater. And most of this freshwater reserve is inaccessible to humans — locked up in polar ice caps or stored too far underneath the earth’s surface to be extracted. Furthermore, much of the freshwater that is accessible has become highly polluted.

This leaves us with roughly 0.4% of the earth’s water which is usable and drinkable to be shared among the 7 billion of its inhabitants (World Atlas, 2018).

Surface WaterSurface water is any body of water that is on the earth’s surface: lakes, rivers, streams, and reservoirs. 80% of the world’s daily water usage comes from surface water and makes up the majority of the water used for irrigation and public supply. Oceans are the world’s largest source of surface water and make up 97% of it, but due to its high salinity, it is unusable for humans (Postel, 2010).

The earth’s surface waters

The earth’s surface waters travel through a complex network of flowing rivers and streams. Rivers can obtain their water from two sources: base flow and runoff. Base flow is when the river collects its water from water-saturated areas in the ground, adding to its volume. Runoff is when the force of gravity naturally pulls water downhill from higher to lower altitudes. They usually start as small creeks in the mountains, and then gradually merge with larger streams as they flow downward, eventually forming large rivers which empty out into the ocean.

GroundwaterGroundwater is the water beneath the earth’s surface that is at 100% saturation. Anything less than 100% is considered soil mixture. 98% of the earth’s freshwater is indeed groundwater and it is about 60 times more plentiful than the surface water.Groundwater travels through holes and cracks in the bedrock.

The Hydrologic Cycle When water evaporates, liquid molecules become gas molecules as they rise through the atmosphere. Condensation begins when the moisture from these gas molecules becomes so great that they fall back to earth in the form of precipitation.They are the storehouses for the world’s freshwater.

Water Conflicts Around the World

There are 263 rivers and countless aquifers worldwide which either cross or demarcate geopolitical boundaries. The Atlas of International Freshwater Agreement states that 90 percent of the world’s countries share these water sources with at least one or two other governing bodies. The atrocities in Darfur are an example of conflict resulting from clean water shortages.

• Violence erupts in 1992 over a dispute between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan regarding the contested Tyuyamuyun reservoir.

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Change is Needed

Water is finite. The amount of water circulating through the earth’s hydrologic cycle is the same amount that has been there since the earth’s beginning, not a drop more or less. What has changed is the number of people living on earth, and thus, the amount of drinkable water required for human sustenance. The United Nations reports that in the last century alone, water consumption has grown at more than twice the rate of population increase.Distribution of the Earth’s water

Earth is known as the “Blue Planet” because 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered with water. Water also exists below land surface and as water vapor in the air. Water is a finite source. The bottled water that is consumed today might possibly be the same water that once trickled down the back of a wooly mammoth. The Earth is a closed system, meaning that very little matter, including water, ever leaves or enters the atmosphere; the water that was here billions of years ago is still here now. But, the Earth cleans and replenishes the water supply through the hydrologic cycle.

The earth

The earth has an abundance of water, but unfortunately, only a small percentage (about 0.3 percent), is even usable by humans. The other 99.7 percent is in the oceans, soils, icecaps, and floating in the atmosphere. Still, much of the 0.3 percent that is useable is unattainable. Most of the water used by humans comes from rivers. The visible bodies of water are referred to as surface water. The majority of fresh water is actually found underground as soil moisture and in aquifers. Groundwater can feed the streams, which is why a river can keep flowing even when there has been no precipitation. Humans can use both ground and surface water.

Fresh water

Fresh water (or freshwater) is any naturally occurring water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Though the term specifically excludes seawater and brackish water, it does include non-salty mineral-rich waters such as chalybeate springs. Fresh water may include water in ice sheets, ice caps, glaciers, icebergs, bogs, ponds, lakes, rainfall, rivers, streams, and groundwater contained in underground aquifers.

Water is critical to the survival of all living organisms. Many organisms can thrive on salt water, but the great majority of higher plants and most mammals need fresh water to live.

resource: wikipedia

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Vegan Consciousness Part 1

By Joshua Michaels When an animal is about to die in a horrific frightful condition and atmosphere, they feel an overwhelming fear which chemically releases high concentrations of adrenaline into their bloodstream. And after the last act of being killed it is than absorbed into the muscle fiber of the animal. The muscle fiber is culturally and historically identified as the “meat”. This remaining meat from all of the trauma filled lives of factory raised animals which die mostly slow unfathomable deaths, have these varying levels of adrenaline in the finalized processed meat products. Beside a slew of harmful health effects an animal protein diet creates, this adrenaline saturated toxic meat consequence is not being discussed or acknowledged by the majority of the active science community. To dive even deeper, this sate of fear and horror is observed and documented by many as another transfer of negative energy which may be a part of reasons meat dieters can be easily agitated and aggressive in their behavior. A plant based diet on the energy level is vibrant and full of living life elements which in turn has a consequence of more balance, insight, patience and compassion which vegans benefit from in their lives and outwardly overall.  To be a vegan is not simply the choice of eating non-animal based foods, it is also to have a relationship and awareness of the broader picture in conjunction with our place and impact on planet earth itself. Helping to stop or slow down the amount of needless suffering and torture of these food industry animals can very well impact the amount of negative and fear based energy which is released into the world. It has been proven in the scientific community that the collective joining of human consciousness and emotion creates different energy and frequency changes that can be measured. Everyone’s actions indeed have powerful impacts which we may not see but can be felt as a byproduct of negative actions. A vegan’s consciousness usually evolves slowly over the time of inner healing and cleansing the body of buildup and indigestible animal proteins.  As a vegan evolves they realize more, research more, seek out more and start to realize that being a vegan has much more of an influence not only with themselves, but with the planet as a whole. Not only is factory farming, dairy and egg production recklessly harming the innocent intelligent animal’s peaceful existence, but it is almost single handedly destroying the environment as a whole. Factory farming waste is not being discussed or even an area of acknowledgment by the very businesses who cause it to the politicians and regulators who should be over-seeing operations. This fecal and other body waste matter destroys and contaminates so much land at such an alarming rate that if the current levels of production stay the same or increases, we will not have available uncontaminated land to live on or grow our foods sooner than later. The consequential waste matter is polluting fresh water tables creating a toxic unusable water source and has damaged or destroyed ecosystems. The decisions which people make in their kitchen has a far more reaching affect than people may normally consider. Hence the important of vegan awareness education and outreach. The most important and urgent factor to focus on with animal food production is the fact that animals are dying at alarming rates and are being crammed, beating, mutilated, diseased and left to decay. This component of the industrial farming of animal’s and animal products needs to be raised and brought to the forefront of our massive food choice paradigm.  People have an ability to make a difference by not supporting this corporate structured machine which is not only torturing innocent animals, but is also affecting people’s health and destroying the environment.  Factory farming practices are unsustainable and consuming life forces, vitality and balance in the environment and for those who support and consume these products. From the purchasing (unrecyclable Styrofoam packing and other toxic material) and consuming of these animal products, people are getting sicker and weaker and the environment is on the same degenerative regression. The end result affects everyone and everything in involved in a completely negative manner. Small scale farming practices can replace such a massive operation built upon suffering and damage and feed populations naturally and easily. However, there will always be independent farmers and ranchers who have their own cattle, cows and chickens being raised for consumption but other than the ethical and moral dilemma at hand, the impact of these operations would not affect the environment or individual in a negative manner as being discussed. Food choices can affect the world in a negative or positive way. Our choices as vegans single handedly play a role in the overall affects, health and vitality of the planet. Considering that there is more and more public concern over our growing food supply and the demands it places on the environment, people need to be educated about all of the meat industries functions and consequences.  There are six factors to become self-educated about and spread the word to the general public on a mass scale one person at a time. Firstly, the brutal and traumatic conditions these animals are placed in are unacceptable and unnecessary. Animals are being born into lives of turmoil, fear and disease without any real effective regulations or oversight to protect them. The animal production complex for the most part has free range to do as they wish in their privately-owned facilities out of the public’s view. People would not even be truly informed or aware if not for organizations such as Mercy for Animals, The Save Movement, Peta, Direct Action Everywhere and Animal Liberation Front which risk everything and go undercover to expose the daily abusive procedures and practices. Animals in such conditions truly are the voiceless and we have an obligation and duty to bring attention to these atrocities. Animals are now being seen in the mass media outlets more and more escaping from slaughter facilities because they are aware of the situation and escaping to have a chance at a peaceful existence.  Major retailers like Wal-Mart are pulling meat products from their shelves because of the exposure depicting the fact that these foods cultivated beings are not being treated humanely. Secondly, air pollution is a major component directly connected to factory farming operations. The numbers show that over 37 percent of methane emissions are released into the atmosphere due to these industries. And methane has a potential 20 times higher than carbon dioxide ability for global warming. The fossil fuels used for energy needs, transportation and in synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and other chemical structures and production may emit nearly 90 million tons of carbon dioxide into the earth’s atmosphere each year. In addition, hydrogen sulfide and ammonia are actively being released which can directly cause negative health effects for human beings. Thirdly, the land is being cleared, contaminated and deemed unusable after industrial animal production. A staggering 260 million acres of forest have already been cleared create crops which are mostly used in livestock feed supply. The severe impact on the landscape cannot be covered up and ignored since it will be in the publics scope when land becomes unavailable. In the rainforest alone, over 100 million hectares of forest have been destroyed that has released enough carbon to increase global warmings excelling pace by 50 percent. Lands need to protected and regulations need to be put into place to ensure that the planet will not have dead zones which are non-functioning ecosystems which can’t be used. Fresh water supplies have become more scares in recent times due to decades of industrial chemical contamination and absorption into the earths water table. Industrial agriculture used in the factory farming business model takes about 70 percent of the earths water supplies. The EPA has concluded that nearly 75 percent of water pollution problems in the United States are in its streams and rivers in relation to chemical out stretch. In conjunction with direct water pollution results, the issue of agricultural runoff from feed crop manufacturing is extremely toxic and affects animal and human health while destroying essential ecosystems. “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations” support enormous cesspools which store animal waste that inevitably leak into nearby water systems. A whole concoction of harmful factors arises from these pools such as nitrate concentrations, dangerous microbes and pharmaceutical grade resistant bacteria’s that ultimately get into our water and food supplies. The harmful release of problematic chemicals can create “toxic algae blooms” which create “dead zones” and contributing fish and other life form death. The nitrates which make their way into human consumption drinking water can have affects such as causing spontaneous abortions and diagnosed baby blue syndrome as observed. Disease outbreaks have reached communities and stemmed from bacteria’s which form in this dead laden water. Examining these issues and lasting damages would have no relevance or grounding in a vegan’s approach or model to food production. Small organic farms growing fresh plant based foods would not destroy local lands or cause such an array of problematic results. Local organic farms would in fact revitalize microbe soil conditions and have an array of trickling biodynamic effects on wildlife and local ecosystems. When it comes to the mass food industries practices, philosophies and a aftermath, a sustaining vegan lifestyle can significantly help to restore balance and maintain prosperous land mass regions through design. Industrial standard crops entitled “Monocultures” pose a threat to our future food security throughout the planet. Single-crop farms are a development of the agricultural corporation’s design to create standards for their commodity which have taken up the majority of the worlds viable agricultural lands and killed off top soils. In order to feed life stock, massive mon crops of wheat, corn, rice and soybeans are grown at an unprecedented scale. However, only a small portion is used for human consumption and they contain chemical additive and are primarily Genetically Modified Organisms crops that hold an entire host of other health and environmental concerns. The overall dilemma which mono crops create is the massive application and use of chemical fertilizers and herbicides which make their way into our environment and bodies. Lastly, to connect a vegan lifestyle and the adjoining consequences as negative is quite minimal or obsolete and actually creates a circular relationship with the land and people benefiting from the plant based organic end products. Vegans may consider that most all of the affiliated supplies and plant crops use chemical fertilizers which play a major position in poisoning the planet and human bodies. Fossil fuel consumption releases carbon emissions at an alarming rate using non-organic agricultural practice. Average United State farms span roughly 418 acres and consume 2,3000 gallons of fossil fuels. Vegans can have a position on our planet to not contribute to these negative and damaging actions by always supporting their vegan choices and buying from local organic farms, speaking on behalf of the animal’s welfare and using their power when they purchase anything on a daily basis. There are so many contributing positive factors in choosing not only a vegan diet but a vegan lifestyle overall and these individual choices add up together to create less of a demand on factory farming animal production as well as creating an entirely separate marketplace and helping the planet. Vegan lifestyle choices range from food, clothing, hygiene products, makeup and hair care to all of the food choices at health store retailers. Regardless of what we associate ourselves with as an identity in the modern world, it cannot be overlooked that vegan options are more conscious, sustainable and have the least amount of global repercussions. Many of the consequences of factory farming can be seen concretely in our world today. However, the deeper more profound spiritual significance should not be overlook and ignored because we cannot see it visually. The immense energy transfer which occurs daily in animal production and processing is never considered a factor but plays a larger role than we would like to discuss in society. Just as one man can change the world, one person can alter the demands for suffering and the collateral damage caused by enormous industries and practices. We are all connected and must start observing that what happens elsewhere eventually finds its way right back to our doorsteps.  Vegan consciousness has a chance and strong ability to change many damaging aspects of the enormous animal meat dilemmas society faces on many fronts. What happens to our collective bodies, spirit, and the innocent animals, and our world as a whole is more essential than ever to consider and expand upon as we evolve.