Human population of United States |
243,000,000 |
Number of Human beings who could be fed by the grain
and soybeans eaten by U. S. livestock |
1,300,000,000 |
Sacred food of Native Americans |
Corn |
Percentage of corn grown in United States eaten by
human beings |
20 |
Percentage of corn grown in United States eaten by
livestock |
80 |
Percentage of oats grown in United States eaten by
livestock |
95 |
Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through
livestock |
90 |
Percentage of carbohydrate wasted by cycling grain
through
livestock |
99 |
Percentage of dietary fiber wasted by cycling grain
through
livestock |
100 |
How frequently a child dies of starvation |
Every 2 seconds |
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 |
Percentage of U.S. agricultural land used to produce
beef |
56 |
Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce 1
pound of feedlot beef |
16 |
Pounds of protein fed to chickens to produce 1 pound
of protein as chicken flesh |
5 pounds |
Pounds of protein fed to hogs to produce 1 pound of
protein as hog flesh |
7.5 pounds |
Number of children who starve to death every day |
40,000 |
Number of pure vegetarians who can be fed on the
amount of land needed to feed 1 person consuming meat-based diet |
20 |
Number of people who will starve to death this
year |
60,000,000 |
Number of people who could be adequately fed by the
grain saved if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10% |
60,000,000 |
Historic cause of demise of many great
civilizations |
Topsoil depletion |
Percentage of original U.S. topsoil lost to date |
75 |
Amount of U.S. crop-land lost each year to soil
erosion |
4,000,000 acres (size of Connecticut) |
Percentage of U.S. topsoil loss directly associated
with livestock raising |
85 |
Number of acres of U.S. forest which have been
cleared to create crop-land to produce a meat-centered diet |
260,000,000 |
How often an acre of U.S. trees disappears |
Every 8 seconds |
Amount of trees spared per year by each individual
who switches to a pure vegetarian diet |
1 acre |
User of more than half of all water used for all
purposes in the United States |
Livestock production |
Quantity of water used in the production of the
average cow |
sufficient to float a destroyer |
Water needed to produce 1 pound of wheat |
25 gallons |
Water needed to produce 1 pound of meat |
2,500 gallons |
Cost of common hamburger meat if water used by meat
industry was not subsidized by U.S. taxpayers |
$35/pound |
Current cost for pound of protein from wheat |
$1.50 |
Current cost for pound of protein from beefsteak |
$15.40 |
Cost for pound of protein from beefsteak if U.S.
taxpayers ceased subsidizing meat industry's use of water |
$89 |
Length of time world's petroleum reserves would last
if all human beings ate meat-centered diet |
13 years |
Length of time world's petroleum reserves would last
if all human beings ate vegetarian diet |
260 years |
Principal reason for U.S. military intervention in
Persian Gulf |
Dependence on foreign oil |
Barrels of oil imported daily by U.S. |
6,800,000 |
Percentage of energy return (as food energy per
fossil energy expended) of most energy efficient farming of meat |
34.5% |
Percentage of energy return (as food energy per
fossil energy expended) of least energy efficient plant food |
328% |
Pounds of soybeans produced by the amount of fossil
fuel needed to produce 1 pound of feedlot beef |
40 |
Percentage of raw materials consumed in U.S. for all
purposes presently consumed to produce current meat-centered diet |
33 |
Percentage of raw materials consumed in U.S. for all
purposes needed to produce fully vegetarian diet |
2 |
Number of U.S. medical schools |
125 |
Number of U.S. medical schools with a required course
in nutrition |
30 |
Training in nutrition received during 4 years of
medical school by average U.S. physician |
2.5 hours |
How frequently a heart attack strikes in U.S. |
Every 25 seconds |
How frequently a heart attack kills in U.S. |
Every 45 seconds |
Most common cause of death in U.S. |
Heart attack |
Risk of death from heart attack by average American
man |
50% |
Risk of death from heart attack by average American
vegetarian man |
15% |
Risk of death from heart attack by average American
purely vegetarian man |
4% |
Amount you reduce your risk of heart attack by
reducing your consumption of meat, dairy products and eggs 10% |
9% |
Amount you reduce your risk of heart attack by
reducing your consumption of meat, dairy products and eggs 50% |
45% |
Amount you reduce your risk of heart attack by
reducing your consumption of meat, dairy products and eggs 100% |
90% |
Rise in blood cholesterol from consuming 1 egg per
day |
12% |
Rise in heart attack risk from 12% rise in blood
cholesterol |
24% |
Meat, dairy and egg industries claim there is no
reason to be concerned about your blood cholesterol as long as it is |
"normal" |
Your risk of dying a disease caused by clogged
arteries if your blood cholesterol is "normal" |
over 50% |
Your risk of dying of a disease caused by clogged
arteries if you do not consume saturated fat and cholesterol |
5% |
Leading sources of saturated fat and cholesterol in
American diets |
Meat, dairy products and eggs |
Hollywood celebrity paid by Meat Board to tout beef
as "Real food for real people" |
James Garner |
Medical event experienced by James Garner in April,
1988 |
Quintuple coronary artery bypass surgery |
World populations with high meat intakes who do not
have correspondingly high rates of colon cancer |
None |
World populations with low meat intakes who do not
have correspondingly low rates of colon cancer |
None |
Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat
meat daily compared to women who eat meat less than once a week |
4 times higher |
Egg Board's advertising slogan |
The incredible edible egg |
Photographs often accompanying the egg board's
slogan |
Young women in bathing suits, emphasizing the shape
of their breasts |
Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat
eggs daily compared to women who eat eggs less than once a week |
3 times higher |
Milk Producer's original ad campaign slogan |
"Everyone needs milk." |
What the Federal Trade Commission called the
"Everyone needs milk" slogan |
"False, misleading and deceptive" |
Milk Producer's revised campaign slogan |
"Milk has something for everybody." |
Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat
butter and cheese 3 or more times a week compared to women who eat these foods
less than once a week |
3 times higher |
Part of female chicken's body that produces eggs |
Ovaries |
Increased risk of fatal ovarian cancer for women who
eat eggs 3 or more times a week compared to women who eat eggs less than once
a week |
3 times higher |
Foods males in U.S. are conditioned to think of as
"manly" |
Animal products |
Increased risk of fatal prostate cancer for men who
consume meats, cheese, eggs and milk daily compared to men who eat these foods
sparingly or not at all |
3.6 times higher |
The Meat Board tells us |
"Today's meats are low in fat." |
The Meat Board shows us |
A serving of beef they claim has "only 300
calories". |
The Meat Board doesn't tell us |
The serving of beef they show us is only 3 onces
(half the size of an average serving of beef) and has been surgically defatted
with a scalpel. |
The dairy industry tells us |
Whole milk is 3.5% fat. |
The dairy industry doesn't tell us |
That 3.5% figure is based on weight and most of the
weight in milk is water. |
The dairy industry doesn't want us to know |
The amount of calories as fat in whole milk is
50%. |
Oscar Mayer tells us |
It is a "myth" that hot dogs are fatty. |
Oscar Mayer demonstrates their point favorably
comparing the fattiness of hot dogs to such low fat bastions as |
Margarine, mayonnaise, salad dressing and cream
cheese. |
The Dairy Council tells us |
Milk is nature's most perfect food. |
The Dairy Council doesn't tell us |
Milk is nature's most perfect food for a baby calf,
who has four stomachs, will double its weight in 47 days, and is destined to
weigh 300 pounds within a year. |
The Dairy Council tells children |
To grow up big and strong drink lots of milk. |
The Dairy Council occasionally tells children |
The enzyme necessary for digestion of milk is
lactase. |
The Dairy Council never tells children |
20% of Caucasian children and 80% of Black children
have no lactase in their intestines. |
The meat, dairy and egg industries tell us |
Animal products constitute 2 of the "Basic 4" food
groups. |
The meat, dairy and egg industries don't tell us |
There were originally 12 official basic food groups,
before these industries applied enormous political pressure on behalf of their
products. |
The meat, dairy, and egg industries tell us |
We are well-fed only with animal products. |
The meat, dairy, and egg industries don't tell
us |
The diseases which are commonly prevented,
consistently improved, and sometimes cured by a low-fat vegetarian diet
include:
- Strokes
- Heart disease
- Osteoporosis
- Kidney Stones
- Breast cancer
- Colon cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Ovarian cancer
- Cervical cancer
- Stomach cancer
- Endometrial cancer
- Diabetes
- Hypoglycemia
- Kidney disease
- Peptic ulcers
- Constipation
- Hemorrhoids
- Hiatal hernias
- Diverticulosis
- Obesity
- Gallstones
- Hypertension
- Asthma
- Irritable colon syndrome
- Salmonellosis
- Trichinosis
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Chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticide residues in the
U.S. diet supplied by meat |
55% |
Supplied by Dairy products |
23% |
Supplied by vegetables |
6% |
Supplied by fruits |
4% |
Supplied by grains |
1% |
Percentage of U.S. mother's milk containing
significant levels of DDT |
99% |
Percentage of U.S. vegetarian mother's milk
containing significant levels of DDT |
8% |
Relative pesticide contamination in breast milk of
meat-eating mothers compared to pesticide contamination in breast milk of
vegetarian mothers |
35 times as high |
Percentage of male college students sterile in
1950 |
.5 |
Percentage of male college students sterile in
1978 |
25 |
Sperm count of average American male compared to 30
years ago |
Down 30% |
Principle reason for sterility and sperm count
reduction of U.S. males |
Chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides (including dioxin,
DDT, etc.) |
Percentage of hydrocarbon pesticide residues in
American diet attributable to meats, dairy products, fish and eggs |
94% |
The Meat Board tells us Not to be concerned about the
dioxins and other pesticides in today's beef because |
the quantities are so small |
The Meat Board doesn't want us to know |
How potent dioxin and other pesticides are |
The Meat Board particularly doesn't want us to
know |
A mere ounce of dioxin could kill 10 million
people |
The USDA tells us |
Our meat is inspected |
The USDA doesn't tell us |
Less than 1 out of every quarter million slaughtered
animals is tested for toxic chemical residues |
The dye used for many years by the USDA to stamp
meats "Choice", "Prime", or "U.S. No. 1 USDA" |
Violet dye No. 1 |
Current status of Violet Dye No. 1 |
Banned as proven carcinogen |
Wingspan of average Leghorn chicken |
26 inches |
Space average leghorn chicken given in egg
factories |
6 inches |
Number of 700 plus pound pigs confined to space the
size of a twin bed in typical factory farm |
3 |
Reason today's veal is so tender |
Calves never allowed to take a single step |
Reason today's veal is whitish-pink |
Calves force fed on anemia producing diet |
McDonald's brags |
60 Billion sold |
McDonald's doesn't brag about |
50 million butchered |
McDonald's clown, Ronald McDonald, tells
children |
Hamburgers grow in hamburger patches and love to be
eaten. |
McDonald's clown, Ronald McDonald, doesn't tell
children: |
Hamburgers are ground up cows who've had their
throats slit by machetes or their brains bashed in by sledgehammers. |
Original actor to play Ronald McDonald |
Jeff Juliano |
Diet now followed by Jeff Juliano |
Vegetarian |
Number of animals killed for meat per hour in
U.S. |
500,000 |
Occupation with highest turnover rate in U.S. |
Slaughterhouse worker |
Occupation with highest employee rate of injury in
U.S. |
Slaughterhouse worker |
Cost to render an animal unconscious prior to
slaughter with captive bolt pistol so that process is done humanely |
1 penny |
Reason given by meat industry for not utilizing
captive bolt pistol |
Too expensive |
Percentage of total antibiotics used in U.S. fed
routinely to livestock |
55 |
Percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to
penicillin in 1960 |
13 |
Percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to
penicillin in 1988 |
91 |
Reason |
Breeding of antibiotic resistant bacteria in factory
farms due to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock |
Effectiveness of all "wonder-drug" antibiotics |
Declining rapidly |
Reason |
Breeding of antibiotic resistant bacteria in factory
farms due to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock |
Response by entire European Economic Community to
routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock |
Ban |
Response by American meat and pharmaceutical
industries to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock |
Full and complete support |
Only man to win Ironman Triathalon more than
twice |
Dave Scott (6 time winner) |
Food choices of Dave Scott |
Vegetarian |
World record holder for 24 triathalon (Swim 4.8
miles, Cycle 185 miles, Run 52.5) |
Sixto Linares |
Food choices of Sixto Linares |
Strict vegetarian |
Athlete who most totally dominated Olympic sport in
track and field history |
Edwin Moses (undefeated in 8 years, 400 meter
hurdles) |
Food choices of Edwin Moses |
Vegetarian |
Other notable vegetarian athletes: |
- Stan Price (World record-bench press)
- Robert Sweetgall (World's premier ultra-distance walker)
- Paavo Nurmi (20 World's records in distance running, 9 Olympic medals)
- Bill Pickering (World record - swimming English Channel)
- Murray Rose (World records - 400 and 1500 meter freestyles)
- Andreas Cahling (Winner - Mr. International body-building championships)
- Roy Hilligan (Winner - Mr. America body-building championships)
- Pierro Verot (World's record for downhill endurance skiing)
- Estelle Gray and Cheryl Marek (World's record for cross-country tandem
cycling)
- James and Johnathon deDonato (World's record for distance butterfly stroke
swimming)
- Ridgely Abele (Winner of 8 national championships in Karate, including
U.S. Karate Association World Championships)
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