I found this today on EnviroMom’s site:
Could you become a vegetarian (to save the planet)?

I tried to post the following as an afterthought, but, I’m guessing because of the multiple URL’s, it is currently flagged as potential spam. So I don’t know if it will be posted, or if anyone other than the site administrator would see it, since the post was from a few months ago….

“But if those ‘facts’ mentioned above are indeed true, well it’s pretty awful.”

I found other sources that either support the animal agriculture/Global Warming argument, or that talk about the threat of our dying oceans….

UN’s FOA
EarthSave
Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (and oceanographer) — primarily on the poor state of our oceans

Others: Organic Consumers’ article
National Geographic’s article

It seems to me that people should be willing to give up fish, to preserve the marine animals, or we will have mass extinctions.

IPCC Chairman

Here’s something shocking that I posted last August — that half the fish caught goes to feed livestock; more tuna goes to feed cats, than humans; and the fact that many fish are caught before they reach the age of sexual maturity contribute to the killing of our oceans. This came from Paul Watson’s (Sea Shepherd) keynote address…. from notes I took
and, just for good measure (on extinction in general): Russia Today’s article

CNN report (news, not science):

I just added this, after posting comments on www.change.org:

and this:

No Meat Week: Help Stop Global Warming

The week starts on 9/1.

I’m posting this not only for the more-or-less known reasons, but for a reason I just heard about for the first time this month — that 14 MILLION TONS of wild caught fish are used in livestock feed every year!
[See Fish and pigs and chickens, oh my!
Farm animals consume 17 percent of wild-caught fish.]
And that some species are caught before they are old enough to reproduce. So their populations may not recover. I think that irresponsible and unsustainable use ought to be an alarming concern to anyone who cares about the collapse of the world’s fisheries and the potential mass extinction of all species who depend on fish to survive.

What are we doing, feeding fish to pigs & chickens?! 
(Doesn’t livestock get enough to eat, with 70% of the world’s grain that they use up, and that we cut down rain forests to grow it?!)

Spread the word. Thanks!

I’m posting a three-part set of videos of Paul Watson’s Keynote Address from AR2008 below. It is so important, especially the last part, not only because of what he and his group does for animals, but what he says about the fishing industry, the killing of the oceans, and things I never heard before, like around half the fish caught goes to feed livestock, and that more tuna goes to feed our cats, than humans consume. Feeding fish to livestock is a totally, and obscenely unsustainable practice, when all of the world’s fisheries are already in a state of collapse, and in light of the scientists’ predication that if the fishing industry doesn’t change the way they fish, there will be no fish left by 2048. (Let’s not blame the seals or the sharks for eating fish. Let’s blame the fishing industry and the meat industry — who are keeping up with consumer demand — and consumer waste.) He also talks about the species of fish who are killed before they reach sexual maturity — so those species aren’t likely to recover. This should be reason enough for environmentalists to want to adopt a plant-based diet, and preach it to others. It isn’t even just about the horrendous treatment of farmed animals that people don’t want to hear about. It’s about mass extinctions — maybe including us. Wake up! Speak out! Do more than change your light bulbs! Do more than rearrange the chairs on the Titanic, as you Episcopalians like to say.

Here’s a link to the transcript of Rabbi David Saperstein’s statement at last year’s Senate hearing on climate change, because he had some good things to say.

Here’s a link to our Presiding Bishop’s talk from the Healing Our Planet Earth Conference who also talked about the dying oceans, overfishing, eating lower on the food chain, and the suffering we cause others in poor parts of the world by our choices.

Paul Watson, Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Here’s something I found while Googling for “mass extinctions”:
Mass Extinctions And ‘Rise Of Slime’ Predicted For Oceans

ScienceDaily (Aug. 13, 2008) — Human activities are cumulatively driving the health of the world’s oceans down a rapid spiral, and only prompt and wholesale changes will slow or perhaps ultimately reverse the catastrophic problems they are facing.

Read it all….

This is more along the lines of what I was searching for:
Fish and pigs and chickens, oh my!
Farm animals consume 17 percent of wild-caught fish

Excerpt:

“Each year we feed 14 million tons of wild-caught fish (including anchovies, sardines, mackerel, and herring) to pigs and chickens around the globe. That amounts to 17 percent of all the wild fish we catch. Pigs and chickens eat double the amount of fish that Japan consumes annually and six times more seafood than the entire U.S. population eats each year.”

The hyperlink in the original links to this: On the Multiple Uses of Forage Fish: From Ecosystems to Markets.

This is just one aspect of the meat industry that is new to me since going to the Animal Rights conference earlier this month.