EarthSave International Facts

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Livestock consume 70 percent of U.S. grain production. Twenty million people die each year as a result of malnutrition and starvation. Americans could feed 100,000,000 people by reducing their intake of meat by just 10 percent. One acre of prime land can produce many pounds of edible product. Here are a few examples:

1. 30,000 pounds of apples
2. 40,000 pounds of potatoes
3. 50,000 pounds of tomatoes
4. 250 pounds of beef 

• Livestock---cattle, poultry, goats, sheep--totaling 15 billion worldwide now outnumber people three to one. Livestock graze on half of the world's land mass. The explosion of livestock populations has resulted in a parallel explosion of animal wastes that pollute surface and ground water. U.S. livestock produces 230,000 pounds of excrement per second. The amount of waste created by a 10,000-head feed lot is equal to the waste of a city of 110,000 people.
• World livestock production is now a significant factor in the emission of two of the four global warming gasses: carbon dioxide and methane. Every steak we eat has the same effect as a 25-mile drive in a typical American car.
• Each year, an estimated 125,000 square miles of rainforest are permanently destroyed, bringing about the extinction of approximately 1,000 plant and animal species.
• Producing 1 pound of feedlot steak results in the loss of 35 pounds of topsoil. It takes 200 to 1,000 years to form 1 inch of topsoil.
• It takes 2,500 gallons of water to product 1 edible pound of beef. It takes 49 gallons of water to produce 1 edible pound of apples.
• Eighty percent of the meat produced in the United States contains drugs that are passed on to you when you eat it.
• Animal products contain large quantities of saturated fat and cholesterol and have no dietary fiber. The U.S. Surgeon General has stated that 68 percent of all diseases are diet related. A diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and grains (and free from animal products) can prevent, improve, and sometimes cure breast cancer, osteoporosis, prostate cancer, impotence, and obesity.
• Seventy-five percent of poultry inspectors say that they would not eat chicken.

I judge you when you eat meat, and I think of you less. I'm sorry, but I do. I think people that eat meat are disgusting, They absolutely revolt me. I haven't been a vegetarian for that long, and I am not perfect when it comes to doing things that don't hurt the Earth, but eating meat is the equivalent of cannibalism to me. It makes me want to puke. A woman was eating a sandwich on the train next to me the other day, and it smelled absolutely wretched, rotting meat. I wanted to cry. I wish I never had to look at meat. I hate when people eat meat around me, it makes me really sad.

I can't wait until I live somewhere I don't have to share my refrigerator with meat, when i never have to fucking look at it or touch it again.  I am tired to being the odd one out.