Facts: Eating Animals

FACTS We can feed the world and still eat meat- but only a little bit. ABOUT EATING ANIMALS In a lifetime, an average Amnerican eats 36,750 lbs of food - or about 18 tons. Animals eaten: 85 23 12 704 35 23 Calories in a lifetime: 86 million The average African from Sub-Sahara will eat a mere 9,706Ibs, or 36 million calories. This food will be converted into: • 3 billion heartbeats • 10,000 gallons of saliva 434 million blinks It's Mass, Mechanized Murder In one year, the average American consumes the following: 130 shellfish · 40 fish · 26 chickens · 1 turkey · 1/2 pig · 1/10 cow This adds up to the following: '1/10 # OF ANIMALS SLAUGHTERED per minute: 38.627 IN THE U.S. per hour: 2,317,596 per day: 55,622,293 per year: Tens of billions 1/2 SHOULD WE EAT ANIMALS? We lose nutrition when we feed grain to animals. Estimates vary, but it takes around 10 units of grain .. and about 4 units of grain to produce 1 unit of to produce 1 unit of beef .. pork. If humans ate the grain instead, we could eliminate world hunger. As of 2000, 18% of the world's population was undernourished and underweight, while 35% of global cereal production was being fed to livestock. But that doesn't mean we can't eat meat. 3 "Default livestock" only eat food that humans can't or won't eat, the way it's done in much of the world-and in permaculture. If we raised all livestock that way, we'd end up with more food. IT'S DESTROYING THE PLANET WATER NEEDED TO PRODUCE: Animals More than 70 percent of the grain that we grow in this country is fed to farmed animals. raised for food produce about 130 smore poop than does the entire human population of the U.S, roughly 89,000 pounds per second. 1 Ib. 219 2,500 GALLONS GALLONS It takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of animal flesh! All that grain could be used much more efficiently if it were fed directly to people. If every American skipped one meal of chicken per week, the carbon dioxide savings would be the same as taking more than a half-million cars off of U.S. roads. OR 1lb. GRAIN 16 LB. Feeds up to 10 people per day Provides 1/3 of daily caloric needs of one person PER WEEK 500,000 CARS CHOLESTEROL Every day, nearly 2,400 Americans die of some type of cardiovascular disease-this amounts to an average of one death every 36 seconds. In many of these cases, the disease is largely caused by eating a diet that is full of animal-derived products. Average cholesterol level of an American: Meat-eater: 210 Vegetarian: 161 Vegan: 133 http:/www.yesmagazine.org/issueslcan-animals save-usjust-he-facts-should-we-eat-animals FACTS http:infographicjournal.com/imageslife-summed-up jpg http://www.gourmandia.t GOURMANDI ABOUT EATNG ANIMALS