I found an interesting pamphlet in the restaurant about the evils of non-vegetarian life style on the environment. I will list some of the details that shocked me:
- Pollution: The meat industry causes more water pollution in the United States than all other industried combined because animals raised for food produce 130 times more excrement than the entire human population.
- Land: More than 260 million acres of U.S. forest have been cleared to create cropland to grow grain to feed farmed animals.
- Water: It takes 2500 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef, but only 25 gallons to produce a pound of wheat.
More information can be found at www.GoVeg.com
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