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Why animal agriculture is a human rights issue as well as an animal rights issue, and why that issue disproportionately affects people of colour:
The Amazon forest is home to roughly 7,000 Kayapo people and, to the south, another 5,500 from 14 different people.
Animal agriculture is responsible for 91% of Amazon destruction
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/15060
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10... href=" http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_destruction.html
https://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/am... href=" http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0813-bertin_moratorium.html">https://news.mongabay.com/2009/0813...
Animal agriculture is responsible for 91% of Amazon destruction
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/15060
1,100 Land activists have been killed in Brazil in the past 20 years defending their forest
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/apr/08/brazilian-murder-dorothy-stang
https://www.theguardian.com/world/200... href=" http://news.mongabay.com/2008/1222-chico_mendes.html">https://news.mongabay.com/2008/1222...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/apr/08/brazilian-murder-dorothy-stang
Deforestation forces them out of their homes
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/indonesia/deforestation-human-costs
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publicati... href=" http://www.pachamama.org/effects-of-deforestation">https://www.pachamama.org/effects-o...
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/indonesia/deforestation-human-costs
Indigenous people are being murdered by cattle ranchers
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/08/brazil-land-indigenous-people-killings
https://www.theguardian.com/world/201... href=" http://amazonwatch.org/news/2013/1024-brazils-indigenous-tribes-are-being-hunted-by-murderous-cattle-ranchers
Almost">https://amazonwatch.org/news/2013... 500 indigenous people were killed between 2002-2010, up 150 people from the previous 8 years http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/08/brazil-land-indigenous-people-killings">https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/08/brazil-land-indigenous-people-killings
Almost">https://amazonwatch.org/news/2013... 500 indigenous people were killed between 2002-2010, up 150 people from the previous 8 years http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/08/brazil-land-indigenous-people-killings">https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...
"Spray fields" outside of factory farms spray animal waste all over residential areas primarily dominated by poc https://www.rt.com/usa/216571-pig-waste-pollution-drone/
People">https://www.rt.com/usa/21657... living close are at increased risk of asthma, diarrhea, cancer, depression and other health problems http://observer.com/2017/05/pig-waste-factory-farming-north-carolina/">https://observer.com/2017/05/p...
People">https://www.rt.com/usa/21657... living close are at increased risk of asthma, diarrhea, cancer, depression and other health problems http://observer.com/2017/05/pig-waste-factory-farming-north-carolina/">https://observer.com/2017/05/p...
There are over 4,000 "waste lagoons" in North Carolina alone, with black communities being targeted.
Malaria which is the biggest killer of African Children under 5 years old is HEAVILY influenced by climate change http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs266/en/">https://www.who.int/mediacent...
Climate change destroys crops, which cuts the amount of food that can be grown esp staple foods! Malnutrition kills 3.1m people per year. Remember, animal agriculture is a HUGE contributor to methane and co2
Slaughterhouse workers are more likely to become violent criminals, domestic abusers, alcoholics, and drug addicts http://www.ptsdjournal.com/posts/the-psychological-damage-of-slaughterhouse-work/">https://www.ptsdjournal.com/posts/the...
This is from WHO
13 ways the middle east is under threat from climate change https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/climate-emergency-middle-east-extreme-weather">https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/...
Anyway there& #39;s a lot more PLEASE READ MY BLOG 19 YEAR OLD ME PUT A LOT OF WORK INTO IT https://madrabbits.org/2016/05/18/more-than-just-animals/">https://madrabbits.org/2016/05/1...
