Antibiotic Pollution

Half of all antibiotics manufactured are used in animal farming for treating diseases (therapeutic), preventing diseases (prophylactic) and simply to make animals grow faster (growth-promoting).
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Chemical Pollution

About 135 million tonnes of nitrogen and 58 million tons of phosphorous came from the global manure heap in 2004 – cattle accounting for 58 per cent, pigs around 32 per cent and chickens and other poultry seven per cent.
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Deforestation Biodiversity

Forests are extraordinary places! They hold 60 per cent of all the world’s plant and animal species (flora and fauna), play a big role in regulating the climate and help reduce global warming by absorbing carbon.
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Desertification

Topsoil, where almost everything grows, is the world's lifeblood and without it almost nothing will grow.
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Global Warming

Carbon dioxide (CO₂), methane and nitrous oxide are gases that are found in the atmosphere.
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Overuse of Fresh Water

Only 2.5 per cent of all water on the planet is fresh and 70 per cent of this is locked up in glaciers and permanent snow.
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Pesticide Pollution

Huge quantities of pesticides, fungicides and herbicides are used across the world and most of them go onto crops grown as fodder for farmed animals.
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