\t\t\t\tReprinted from The New York Times, June 20, 1989<\/b>
\n
All figures from the 1980’s<\/b><\/p>\n
World Hunger<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n Number of people worldwide who will die of starvation this year: 60 Environment<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n Cause of global warming: greenhouse effect<\/b> Cancer<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat meat 4 times a week Natural Resources<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n Use of more than half of all water used for all purposes in the U.S.: Cholesterol<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n Number of U.S. medical schools: 125<\/b> Antibiotics<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n Percentage of U.S. antibiotics fed to livestock: 55<\/b> Pesticides<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n Percentage of pesticide residues in the U.S. diet supplied by grains: Ethical<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n Number of animals killed for meat per hour in the U.S.: 500,000<\/b> Survival<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n Athlete to win Ironman Triathlon more than twice: Dave Scott (6 time Posted by: skip Reprinted from The New York Times, June 20, 1989 All figures from the 1980’s World Hunger Number of people worldwide who will die of starvation this year: 60 million Number of people who could be adequately fed with the grain saved if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10%: 60 million Human beings in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hippie-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nmillion<\/b>
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Number of people who could be adequately fed with the grain saved if
\nAmericans reduced their intake of meat by 10%: 60 million<\/b>
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Human beings in America: 243 million<\/b>
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Number of people who could be fed with grain and soybeans now eaten
\nby U.S. livestock: 1.3 billion<\/b>
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Percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by people: 20<\/b>
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Percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 80<\/b>
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Percentage of oats grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 95<\/b>
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Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 99<\/b>
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How frequently a child starves to death: every 2 seconds<\/b>
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Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on an acre: 20,000<\/b>
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Pounds of beef produced on an acre: 165<\/b>
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Percentage of U.S. farmland devoted to beef production: 56<\/b>
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Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce a pound of beef: 16<\/b><\/p>\n
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Primary cause of greenhouse effect: carbon dioxide emissions from
\nfossil fuels<\/b>
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Fossil fuels needed to produce a meat-centered diet vs. a meat free
\ndiet: 50 times more.<\/b>
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Percentage of U.S. topsoil lost to date: 75<\/b>
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Percentage of U.S. topsoil loss directly related to livestock raising:
\n85<\/b>
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Number of acres of U.S. forest cleared for cropland to produce meat-centered
\ndiet: 260 million<\/b>
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Amount of meat U.S. imports annually from Costa Rica, El Salvador,
\nGuatemala, Honduras and Panama: 200 million pounds<\/b>.
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Average per capita meat consumption in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
\nHonduras and Panama: less than eaten by average U.S. house cat.<\/b>
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Area of tropical rainforest consumed in every quarter-pound hamburger:
\n55
\nsq ft.<\/b>
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Current rate of species extinction due to destruction of tropical rainforests
\nfor meat grazing and other uses: 1,000 per year.<\/b>
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Also cattle contribute to global warming by being one of the biggest
\nsources of carbon dioxide and methane gases.<\/p>\n
\nvs. less than once a week: 4 times<\/b>.
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For women who eat eggs daily vs. less than once a week: 3 times<\/b>
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Increased risk of fatal ovarian cancer for women who eat eggs 3 or
\nmore times a week vs. less than once a week: 3 times.<\/b>
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Increased risk of fatal prostate cancer for men who eat meat daily
\nvs. sparingly or not at all: 3.6 times<\/b>.<\/p>\n
\nLivestock
\nportion<\/b>
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Amount of water used in production of the average steer: sufficient
\nto float a destroyer<\/b>.
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Gallons to produce a pound of wheat: 25<\/b>
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Gallons to produce a pound of meat: 2,500<\/b>
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Cost of common hamburger if water used by meat industry not subsidized
\nby the U.S. taxpayer: $35 a pound.<\/b>
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Current cost of pound of protein from beefsteak if water was no longer
\nsubsidized: $89<\/b>
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Years the world’s known oil reserves would last if every human ate
\na meat-centered diet: 13<\/b>
\n
Years they would last if human beings no longer ate meat: 260.<\/b>
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Barrels of oil imported into the U.S. daily: 6.8 million<\/b>.
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Percentage of fossil fuel returned as food energy by most efficient
\nfactory farming of meat: 34.5<\/b>
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Percentage from least efficient plant food: 32.8<\/b>
\n
Percentage of raw materials consumed by U.S. to produce present meat-centered
\ndiet: 33<\/b><\/p>\n
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Number requiring a course in nutrition: 30<\/b>
\n
Nutrition training received by average U.S. physician during four years
\nin medical school: 25 hours<\/b>
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Most common cause of death in U.S.: heart attack<\/b>
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How frequently a heart attack kills in U.S.: every 45 seconds<\/b>.
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Average U.S. man’s risk of death from heart attack: 50%<\/b>
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Risk for average U.S. man who avoids the meat-centered diet: 15%<\/b>
\n
Meat industry claims you should not be concerned about your blood cholesterol
\nif it is: normal<\/b>
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Your risk of dying of a disease caused by clogged arteries if your
\nblood cholesterol is normal: 50%<\/b><\/p>\n
\n
Percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin in 1960:
\n13<\/b>
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Percentage resistant in 1988: 91<\/b>
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Response of European Economic Community to routine feeding of antibiotics
\nto livestock: ban<\/b>
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Response of U.S. meat and pharmaceutical industries to routine feeding
\nof antibiotics to livestock: full and complete support<\/b><\/p>\n
\n1<\/b>
\n
Percentage of pesticide residues in the U.S. diet supplied by fruits:
\n4<\/b>
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Percentage of pesticide residues in the U.S. diet supplied by dairy
\nproducts: 23<\/b>
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Percentage of pesticide residues in the U.S. diet supplied by meat:
\n55<\/b>
\n
Pesticide contamination of breast milk from meat-eating mothers vs.
\nnon-meat eating: 35<\/b> times higher<\/b>
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What USDA tells us: meat is inspected<\/b>
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Percentage of slaughtered animals inspected for residues of toxins
\nand chemicals including dioxin and DDT: less than 0.00004<\/b><\/p>\n
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Occupation with highest turnover rate in U.S.: slaughterhouse worker<\/b>
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Occupation with the highest rate of on-the-job injury in the U.S.:
\nslaughterhouse
\nworker<\/b>
\n
Cost to render animal unconscious with captive bolt pistol before
\nslaughter: 1 cent<\/b>
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Reason given by meat industry for not using captive bolt pistol:
\ntoo expensive.<\/b><\/p>\n
\nwinner)<\/b>
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Food choices of Dave Scott: Vegetarian<\/b>
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Largest meat eater that ever lived: Tyrannosaurus Rex<\/b>
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Last sighting of T-Rex: 100,000,000 B.C.<\/b><\/p>\n
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