According to David Seckler, director general of the Water
Institute, “Water scarcity is now the single greatest threat to human
health, the environment, and the global food supply.” “It also
threatens global peace as countries in Asia and the Middle East seek
to cope with shortages.”
BBC News Online environment correspondent, Alex Kirby reports that as
more people adopt Western-style lifestyles and diets, water consumption
will soar further. The production of one kilogram of grain-fed beef
requires at least 15 cubic meters of water, while a kilo of cereals
requires only up to three cubic meters of water.
Seventy percent of the water used worldwide is used for agriculture –
most of it, by far, for animal agriculture, which produces an enormous
amount of pollution and disease. Each year waterborne diseases kill over
five million people, ten times the number killed globally in wars.
As I’ve mentioned before, animal agriculture and factory farms
consume enormous amounts of water and grains that could be used to feed
people. And with the population predicted to rise to 8.9 billion by
2050, the world is heading for disaster, to put it mildly.
To quote Alex Kirby: “The poor are the ones who suffer most. Water
shortages can mean long walks to fetch water, high prices to buy it,
food insecurity and disease from drinking dirty water.”
Few people want to face the truth and do the only logical thing that
could save lives – both human and other animal – as well as the
environment: Go Vegan. That’s the message in Genesis 1:29:
29. Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding
seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has
fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
~ New American Standard Bible
