28 reasons to not eat meat

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28 reasons not to eat meat

From How To Make The World a Better Place

by Jeffery A. Hollender

 

1. Number of human beings who could be fed annually by the grain and

soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock: 1,300,000,000

2. Number of people who will starve to death this year: 60,000,000

3. Number of people would could be adequately fed by the grain saved

if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10 percent: 60,000,000

4. Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce one pound of

feedlot beef: 16

5. Number of pure vegetarians who can be fed on the amount of land

needed to feed one meat-eating person: 20

6. Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock:

90

7. Percentage of carbohydrate wasted by cycling grain through

livestock: 99

8. Percentage of dietary fiber wasted by cycling grain through

livestock: 100

9. Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on 1 acre of land: 20,000.

Pounds of beef that can be produced on 1 acre of land: 165

10. Reason veal is so tender: calves are never allowed to take a

single step

11. Reason veal is whitish pink: calves are force-fed an

anemia-producing diet

12.The McDonald’s clown, Ronald McDonald, tells children: “Hamburgers

grow in hamburger patches and love to be eaten.” Ronald McDonald

doesn’t tell children: “Hamburgers are ground of cows who’ve had

their throats slit by machetes or their brains bashed in by

sledgehammers.”

13. Number of animals killed for meat per hour in the United States:

50,000

14. Occupation with highest employee-turnover rate in the United

States: slaughterhouse worker

15. Occupation with highest employee rate of injury in the United

States: slaughterhouse worker.

16. Cost to render an animal unconscious prior to slaughter so that

process is done humanely: 1 cent. Reason given by meat industry for

not utilizing captive bolt pistol: too expensive

17. Percentage of antibiotics produced in this country used in

livestock feeds: 55

18. Production of excrement by total U.S. human population: 12,000

pounds per second. Production of excrement by U.S. livestock: 250,000

pounds per second.

19. Percentage of harmful organic waste-water pollution attributable

to U.S. human population: 10. Percentage of harmful organic

waste-water pollution attributable to U.S. livestock: 90

20. Enough water goes into the feeding and care of the average cow

to: float a destroyer

21. Water needed to produce a pound of wheat: 25 gallons. Water

needed to produce a pound of meat: 2,500 gallons

22. Number of acres of U.S. forest that have been cleared to create

cropland to produce a meat-centered diet: 260,000,000

23. How often an acre of trees disappears in this country: every 5

seconds

24. At the present rate of deforestation, number of years before not

a single tree will remain standing in the United States: 50

25. Amount of trees spared per year by each individual who switches

to a pure vegetarian diet: 1 acre

26. Most common cause of death in the United States: heart attack.

risk of death from heart attack by average American man: 50 percent.

Risk of death from heart attack by an average American man consuming

a pure vegetarian diet: 4 percent

27. Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat meat daily

compared to women who eat meat less than once a week: four times

higher

28. Leading source of pesticide residues in the U.S. diet: meat- 55

percent. Total pesticide residues in the U.S. diet supplied by

vegetables: 6 percent. Total pesticide residues in the U.S. diet

supplied by fruits: 4 percent. Total pesticide residues in the U.S.

diet supplied by grains: 1 percent.

WHAT YOU CAN DO: STOP EATING MEAT OR REDUCE YOUR CONSUMPTION. IF AND

WHEN YOU DO EAT MEAT, SELECT ORGANICALLY FED, HUMANELY TREATED, RANGE

FREE BEEF OR POULTRY.

 

 

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

 

- Elie Wiesel