NishaWillow
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When pets can emit twice the carbon emissions of our homes’ electricity and kill up to 200 million wild prey in the UK every year, we cannot stay silent. Unfortunately, in many cases pet ownership is simply another form of destructive consumerism.
For obvious reasons, truth-telling about pets to friends can be a painful process but it is not something we should shy away from.
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But it’s not just wildlife. 20.8 million dogs and cats consuming just one tin or unrecyclable plastic package of cat food per day results in 7.6 billion containers being manufactured each year, just in the UK. Add to this, another 3.6 billion plastic bags for picking up the estimated 1.2 million tons of dog-poop and then there is the issue of disposing of 200 thousand tons of cat waste.
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/opinion/pets-uk-ownership-cats-dogs-carbon-environmental-impact-b1249610.html
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Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/veganism-environmental-impact-planet-reduced-plant-based-diet-humans-study-a8378631.html
Go vegan to help UK hit greenhouse gas targets, says Cabinet minister Kwasi Kwarteng: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/vegan-help-uk-hit-greenhouse-gas-targets-cabinet-minister-kwasi-kwarteng-b931123.html
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First they said about cows, that they are a danger to the environment and that we should all become vegans, and now they say that pets are also harmful.
I saw another article about babies on this topic: https://www.vogue.co.uk/mini-vogue/article/having-a-child-sustainable
For obvious reasons, truth-telling about pets to friends can be a painful process but it is not something we should shy away from.
(...)
But it’s not just wildlife. 20.8 million dogs and cats consuming just one tin or unrecyclable plastic package of cat food per day results in 7.6 billion containers being manufactured each year, just in the UK. Add to this, another 3.6 billion plastic bags for picking up the estimated 1.2 million tons of dog-poop and then there is the issue of disposing of 200 thousand tons of cat waste.
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/opinion/pets-uk-ownership-cats-dogs-carbon-environmental-impact-b1249610.html
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Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/veganism-environmental-impact-planet-reduced-plant-based-diet-humans-study-a8378631.html
Go vegan to help UK hit greenhouse gas targets, says Cabinet minister Kwasi Kwarteng: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/vegan-help-uk-hit-greenhouse-gas-targets-cabinet-minister-kwasi-kwarteng-b931123.html
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First they said about cows, that they are a danger to the environment and that we should all become vegans, and now they say that pets are also harmful.
I saw another article about babies on this topic: https://www.vogue.co.uk/mini-vogue/article/having-a-child-sustainable