1. A vegan approach to Environmental Management
Dr. Michael C. Morris
Bay of Plenty Polytechnic

2. Dont Shoot the Messenger
How does the scene from MacBeth show the way we react to news we dont like?
Rachel Carson published silent spring in 1962
The industry reacted by personal attacks.Rachel Carson is an embittered spinster, or a Lesbian (therefore by implication ignorant)
3. The Food and Agriculture Organisation published livestocks long shadow in 2006.
Here is Federated Farmers intelligent, measured and scientific response
it must be written by a vegan (and therefore by implication wrong)
4. So vegans are the Lesbians of the 2000s!
5. The Elephant in the room
6. Environmental degradation has been blamed on...
Population
Transport
Industrial growth
Capitalism
Lack of capitalism
Communism
Lack of communism
Government corruption
Gods wrath
Etc...
7. But what about our SAD diet
8. Ecology 101
For every step up the food chain, the amount of resources (land, water, fuel, energy etc.) goes up by a factor of ten
So passing food through a cow before eating it is very inefficient
9. Global warming
10. Agriculture is responsible for 50% of global warming in New Zealand.More than any other industry
This is caused by methane from cow burps (not farts) and nitrous oxide from animal waste
Worldwide, livestock accounts for18% of all greenhouse gases.More than transport.
11. Rats
Rats with wings!!!
Locusts with tits!
12. Source: Eshel and Martin 2006
13. Conclusion from Eshel and Martin study
A vegan in a SUV has the same effect as a red-blooded American (or Kiwi) meat eater in a Prius
14. Water use
1kg of meat requires 10,000 L of water
15. Photo: David Hamilton, Waikato University
16. Photo David Hamilton
17. 18. Habitat destruction
19. Christchurch and the Canterbury Plains
Easter Island
20. Photo: Nzescape.com
21. Illegal Amazonian Deforestation for Soybean production
22. 23. Kahikatea forest
Photo: Gilbert van Reenan
24. Hauraki Plains
Photo: Environment Waikato
25. Some facts
Land clearance for farms is a leading cause of sediment build up and coral reef destruction
Land clearance for meat is the leading cause of Amazonian deforestation
Almost all of New Zealands lowland Kahikatea forest has gone
New Zealand is a biodiversity hotspot
Import of Palm kernel is contributing to rain forest destruction in Borneo
26. Water pollution
27. 28. 29. Some figures
90% of Waikato streams are too polluted to swim in
Farming in the Waikato contributes more to stream pollution than the Hamilton and Ngarawahia sewage works
A piggery of 16,000 pigs produces as much untreated sewage as a city of 23,000
Reids piggery in Carterton and the Kuku Beach Road piggery have been convicted for pumping raw sewage into the rivers
30. Fertiliser supply
31. Fertiliser ship unloading in Tauranga
Photo: Western Sahara Watch
32. Photo: Republic of Nauru
33. Some Facts
New Zealand fertiliser use has doubled in the last 10 years
Most of this finds its way into streams
Naurus fishery has been totally destroyed by phosphate mining
Present phosphatein New Zealand comes from disputed territory in the Western Sahara
34. Human rights
Livestock agriculture cannot feed the world
Population that could be fed if everyone shared the dietary preferences and food system efficiencies of:
Source: Bender, W.H. 1997. How much food will we
need in the 21st Century? Environment. 39: 6-11, 27-28.
1 The actual world population in 1990 was 5.3 billion.
35. Population that could be fed if everyone shared the dietary preferences and food system efficiencies of:
Source: Bender, W.H. 1997. How much food will we
need in the 21st Century? Environment. 39: 6-11, 27-28.
1 The actual world population in 1990 was 5.3 billion.
36. Health
Eating low on the food chain prevents

Adult onset diabetes

37. Kidney Stones 38. Breast prostrate and pancreatic cancer