Kip Andersen: Self - Film Co-Director
Quotes
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Kip Andersen : Like so many people, I saw his film, An Inconvenient Truth, about the impacts of global warming, and it scared the emojis out of me.
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Kip Andersen : You either live for something or die for nothing.
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Kip Andersen : Raising animals for food is responsible for 30% of the world's water consumption, occupies about 45% of the Earth's land, is responsible for up to 91% of Brazilian Amazon destruction, is the leading cause of ocean "dead zones," habitat destruction, and species extinction
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Kip Andersen : So much attention is given to lowering our home water-use, yet domestic use is only 5% of what is consumed in the U.S. vs. 55% for animal agriculture. That's because it takes upwards of 2500 gallons water to produce one pound of beef.
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Kip Andersen : Animal agriculture produces 65% of the world's nitrous oxide, a gas with a global warming potential 296 times greater that CO2, per pound. Yet all we hear about is fossil fuels.
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Kip Andersen : Hydraulic fracturing for natural gas uses a staggering amount of water: 100 billion gallons every year in the U.S. But when I compared this with animal agriculture, raising livestock just in the U.S. consumes 34 trillion gallons of water! And, it turns out, the methane emission from both industries are nearly equal.
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Kip Andersen : I found out that one quarter-pound hamburger requires about 660 gallons of water to produce. Here I'd been taking these "shorter showers," trying to save water, to find out that eating one hamburger is the equivalent of showering two entire months!
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Kip Andersen : It turns out that, due to land-use, grass-fed beef is even more unsustainable than factory-farming.
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Kip Andersen : Cows and other farmed animals produce a substantial amount of methane from their digestive processes. Methane gas from livestock is 86 times more destructive than CO2 from vehicles.
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Kip Andersen : I had to come to the full conclusion the only way to sustainably and ethically live on this planet with seven billion other people is to live an entirely plant-based vegan diet. I decided instead of eating others, to eat for others.
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Kip Andersen : Two environmental specialists at the World Bank Group using the *global* standard for measuring greenhouse gases concluded that animal agriculture was responsible for 51% of human-caused climate change, when the loss of carbon sinks, respiration, and methane are properly accounted for, which the UN study failed to address.
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Kip Andersen : Energy-related CO2 emissions are expected to increase 20% by the year 2040, yet emissions from agriculture are predicted to increase 80% by 2050. This devastating figure is mostly due to a projected global increase in meat and dairy consumption.
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Kip Andersen : So you encourage people to eat less meat, because of the tremendous resources required and the toll on the environment...
Michael Pollan : and the animals...
Kip Andersen : and on the animals...
Michael Pollan : and the workers in the system. It's a brutal system on every level.
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William Potter : The animal agriculture industry is one of the most powerful industries on the planet. I think most people in this country are aware of the influence of money and industry on politics, and we really see that clearly on display with this industry in particular. Most people would be shocked to learn that animal rights and environmental activists are the number one domestic terrorism threat according to the FBI.
Kip Andersen : And why is that?
William Potter : It's a difficult question to answer, why these groups are at the top of the FBI's priorities. I think a big part of it is that they, more than really any other social movements today, are directly threatening corporate profits. You know, when we try to find out how factory farms and how animal agriculture is polluting the environment, they try to claim exemptions to that information, either under national security terms or public safety, uh, trademark issues, business - it's a business secret - we've seen all these attempts to keep people in the dark about what they're actually doing. They're one of the largest industries on the planet with the biggest environmental impact, trying to keep us in the dark about how it's operating.
