I got this from the Local Hara Chrisna's:


HUNGER:

1. Number og people worldwide who will die of starvation this year: 60 million

2. Number of people who could be adequately fed with the grains saved if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10%: 60 million

3. Human beings in America: 243 million

4. Number of people who could be fed with grains and soybeans now eaten by U.S. livestock 1.3 billion

5. Percentageof corn grown in the U.S eaten by people: 20%

6. Percenage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 80%

7. Percentage of oats grown in the U.S.eaten by livestock: 95%

8. Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 90%

9. How freequently a child starves to death : every 2 seconds

10. Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on one acre: 20,000

11. Pounds of beef on one acre: 165

12. Percentage of U.S. farmland devoted to beef production: 56%

13. Pounds of grain and soy beansneeded to produce a pound of feedlot beef: 16

NATURAL RESOURCES

14. User of more than half of all waterused for all purposes in the U.S.: livestock production

15. Gallons to produce a pound of wheat: 25

16. Gallons to produce a pound of meat: 2,500

17. Cost of common hamburger if water used by meat industry was not subsidized by U.S. taxpayers: $35/lb

18. Current cost of of pound of protein from beef steak if water was no longer subsidized: $89

19. Years the world's known oil reserveswould last if every human ate a meat centered diet: 13

20. Years they would last if humans no longer ate meat: 260

21. Percentage of raw materials consumed by U.S. to produce present meat centered diet: 33%

THE ENVIORNMENT

22. The cause of global warming:Greenhouse effect

23. Priary cause of greenhouse effect: carbon dioxide emissions fromfossil fuels

24. Fossil fuels needed to produce a meat centered diet: 50 times more

25. Percentage of U.S. topsoil lost to date: 75%

26. Percentage of U.S. topsoil lost directly to livestock raising: 85

27. Number of acres of U.S. forests cleared for cropland to produce a meat centered diet: 260 million

28. Amount of meat U.S. imports actually from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama: 200 million pounds

29. Area of tropical rainforest consumed in every quarter pound hamburger: 55 square feet


30. Current rate of species extinction due to destruction of tropical rainforests for meat grazing and other uses: 1,000 per year

PESTICIDES

31. Percentage of pesticide residue in the U.S. diet supplied by grains: 1%

32. Percentage of pesticide residue in the U.S. diet supplied by fruits: 4%

33. Percentage of pesticide residue in the U.S. diet supplied by vegetables: 6%

34. Percentage of pesticide residue in the U.S. diet supplied by dairy products: 23%

35. Percentage of pesticide residue in the U.S. diet supplied by meat: 55%

Statistics from: "Diet For A New America" by John Robbins