SCRIPT - Plant- Based Planet
First board - Over the past decade, our environment & plant have been on a sharp decline. This can be attributed to many harmful practices humans have - but one of the most harmful is animal agriculture. One easy change us humans can make is to go plant-based.
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Second board - There are four main areas of the environment that can be improved with a plant-based diet. Water, Deforestation, Green House Gasses, and Food Waste. “Shifting away from animal-based foods [could not only] add up to 49% to the global food supply without expanding croplands;” but would also significantly reduce carbon emissions and waste byproducts that end up in our oceans and as seafood byproducts.
Third Board - Farming accounts for 70 percent of the water consumed and most of its wasteful use, said representatives of 130 nations at the World Water Forum discussing water management. The livestock sector is the largest contributor to global water pollution due to runoff. Growing crops to feed animals killed for food consumes 56 percent of water in the U.S.
Fourth Board - The livestock sector is also one of the leading drivers of global deforestation, and is linked to 75 percent of historic deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. Nearly a third of biodiversity loss to date has been linked to animal agriculture. (There are a lot of statistics I can pull from here)
Fifth Board - Greenhouse Gases -Accounts for five percent of global anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions; Represents 44 percent of anthropogenic methane emissions, the primary driver of climate change related to livestock, as methane is 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide over 100 years;Comprises 44 percent of all anthropogenic nitrous oxide emissions, the most potent GHG; andMakes up 75-80 percent of total agricultural emissions.
Sixth Board - Often we throw away parts of a food that is actually edible. Instead of throwing away the green tops of vegetables, seeds, and peels, consider incorporating them into the meal. Use creative recipes that reduce or reuse food scraps like chef Max La Manna’s Seeds to Skin Squash and Sage Pasta or Food Waste Vegetable Stock.
However, having extra food scraps is inevitable. It’s what we do with it that makes a difference. Food waste makes up approximately 22% of municipal solid waste. When food ends up in the landfill, it rots and produces the greenhouse gas called methane. Composting helps keep these food scraps out of landfills and avoids these polluting emissions from being produced.
