"So, I'm vegan this month"
A bunch of people have heard me say that this month, and I felt now was the time to explain what exactly I mean by "I'm vegan this month." At the end of September I watched a documentary called Cowspiracy, which is a documentary about how animal agriculture is by far the largest cause of global warming. It was an eye-opening experience not just because it told me a lot of things I hadn't been aware of, but also because of the way it approached the issue. Instead of going the route that I've most seen, which is the "look at these poor animals they are suffering"-route, Cowspiracy showed how animal agriculture itself as a series of processes is harmful to nature. Everything from how much water it takes to produce a pound of ground beef and how much rainforest land is destroyed to make more crops for cows to eat, all of it was from the point of view of the technical harm it causes the planet. It was a perspective I'd never thought of. I wrote a Face