Food for Thought

Considering the biomass of all land animals on Earth, humans comprise 30%, slaughterhouse animals comprise 66%, and wild animals in nature comprise a mere 4%. 

Source: Food Is Climate: A Response to Al Gore, Bill Gates, Paul Hawken, and the Conventional Narrative on Climate Change, by Glen Merzer and Gary Tiedemann (forward by Philip Malcolm Wollen, p. xiv) (2021). Mr. Wollen further points out that 70% of all birds on the planet are living in cages and awaiting slaughter.

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