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Það er eina raunhæfa aðgerðin til að minnka,
eða
koma í veg fyrir hungur.
Það er eina raunhæfa aðgerðin til að minnka,
eða
koma í veg fyrir loftslagsvandan.
Það er eina raunhæfa aðgerðin til að minnka,
eða
koma í veg fyrir vatnsskort.
Það er eina raunhæfa aðgerðin til að minnka,
eða
koma í veg fyrir skógareyðingu.
Það er eina raunhæfa aðgerðin til að minnka,
eða
koma í veg fyrir mengun..
Það er eina raunhæfa leiðin til að minnka,
stórminnka notkun á olíu, og
öðrum náttúru auðlindum.
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User of more than half of all water used for all purposes in the U.S.:
livestock production
Amount of water used in production of the average cow: sufficient to float
a destroyer
Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of wheat:
25
Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of California beef: 5,000
Years the world's known oil reserves would last if
every human ate a meat-centered diet: 13
Years they would last if human beings no longer ate meat: 260
Calories of fossil fuel expended to get 1
calory of protein from beef: 78
To get 1 calory of protein from soybeans: 2
Percentage of all raw materials (base products of
farming, forestry and mining, including fossil fuels) consumed by U.S. that is
devoted to the production of livestock: 33
Percentage of all raw materials consumed by the U.S.
needed to produce a complete vegetarian diet: 2
Number of people worldwide who will die as a result of
malnutrition this year: 20 million
Number of people who could be adequately fed using
land freed if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10%: 100 million
Percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by people: 20
Percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 80
Percentage of oats grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 95
Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain
through livestock: 90
How frequently a child dies as a result of malnutrition: every 2.3 seconds
Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on an acre:
40,000
Pounds of beef produced on an acre: 250
Percentage of U.S. farmland devoted to beef production: 56
Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce a
pound of edible flesh from feedlot beef: 16”
Egilsstadir, 15.01.2011 JG