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28 reasons not to eat meat
    #4839577 - 10/22/05 10:06 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

28 reasons not to eat meat

1. Number of human beings who could be fed annually by the grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock: 1,300,000,000

2. Number of people who will starve to death this year: 60,000,000

3. Number of people would could be adequately fed by the grain saved if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10 percent: 60,000,000

4. Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce one pound of feedlot beef: 16

5. Number of pure vegetarians who can be fed on the amount of land needed to feed one meat-eating person: 20

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

7. Percentage of carbohydrate wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 99

8. Percentage of dietary fiber wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 100

9. Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on 1 acre of land: 20,000. Pounds of beef that can be produced on 1 acre of land: 165

10. Reason veal is so tender: calves are never allowed to take a single step

11. Reason veal is whitish pink: calves are force-fed an anemia-producing diet

12.The McDonald?s clown, Ronald McDonald, tells children: ?Hamburgers grow in hamburger patches and love to be eaten.? Ronald McDonald doesn?t tell children: ?Hamburgers are ground of cows who?ve had their throats slit by machetes or their brains bashed in by sledgehammers.?

13. Number of animals killed for meat per hour in the United States: 50,000

14. Occupation with highest employee-turnover rate in the United States: slaughterhouse worker

15. Occupation with highest employee rate of injury in the United States: slaughterhouse worker.

16. Cost to render an animal unconscious prior to slaughter so that process is done humanely: 1 cent. Reason given by meat industry for not utilizing captive bolt pistol: too expensive

17. Percentage of antibiotics produced in this country used in livestock feeds: 55

18. Production of excrement by total U.S. human population: 12,000 pounds per second. Production of excrement by U.S. livestock: 250,000 pounds per second.

19. Percentage of harmful organic waste-water pollution attributable to U.S. human population: 10. Percentage of harmful organic waste-water pollution attributable to U.S. livestock: 90

20. Enough water goes into the feeding and care of the average cow to: float a destroyer

21. Water needed to produce a pound of wheat: 25 gallons. Water needed to produce a pound of meat: 2,500 gallons

22. Number of acres of U.S. forest that have been cleared to create cropland to produce a meat-centered diet: 260,000,000

23. How often an acre of trees disappears in this country: every 5 seconds

24. At the present rate of deforestation, number of years before not a single tree will remain standing in the United States: 50

25. Amount of trees spared per year by each individual who switches to a pure vegetarian diet: 1 acre

26. Most common cause of death in the United States: heart attack. risk of death from heart attack by average American man: 50 percent. Risk of death from heart attack by an average American man consuming a pure vegetarian diet: 4 percent

27. Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat meat daily compared to women who eat meat less than once a week: four times higher

28. Leading source of pesticide residues in the U.S. diet: meat- 55 percent. Total pesticide residues in the U.S. diet supplied by vegetables: 6 percent. Total pesticide residues in the U.S. diet supplied by fruits: 4 percent. Total pesticide residues in the U.S. diet supplied by grains: 1 percent.

WHAT YOU CAN DO: STOP EATING MEAT OR REDUCE YOUR CONSUMPTION. IF AND WHEN YOU DO EAT MEAT, SELECT ORGANICALLY FED, HUMANELY TREATED, RANGE FREE BEEF OR POULTRY.
-How To Make The World a Better Place, written by Jeffery A. Hollender


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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: Shroomism]
    #4839745 - 10/22/05 11:08 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

20. Enough water goes into the feeding and care of the average cow to: float a destroyer

21. Water needed to produce a pound of wheat: 25 gallons. Water needed to produce a pound of meat: 2,500 gallons

You do know that earth has had roughly the same amount of water for the past couple billion years right? Do you drive a car? what about the 40+ thousand gallons of water required to make your tires, yet alone the rest of you car.


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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: Shroomism]
    #4839769 - 10/22/05 11:15 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

29. Punishment for your taste buds.
30. To impress women that don't shower.


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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: Shroomism] * 1
    #4839794 - 10/22/05 11:20 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Oh my god.. Shroomism that is cute copy+paste job, but that is simply propaganda and doesn't belong here. Not only is it propaganda, but nearly all of those points are moot if you want to talk science and economics.


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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: Shroomism]
    #4840263 - 10/23/05 01:40 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Reasons to eat meat:

1.

2.

3.


oh and one thing that's sort of retarded about that list you posted is that none of it pertains to SEAFOOD


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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: LiquidSmoke]
    #4840269 - 10/23/05 01:48 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

:drooling:

Where is that second picture from?


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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: daimyo]
    #4840503 - 10/23/05 04:14 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

I could really go for some veil now.


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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: LiquidSmoke]
    #4840511 - 10/23/05 04:22 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

LiquidSmoke said:

oh and one thing that's sort of retarded about that list you posted is that none of it pertains to SEAFOOD




Its okay to eat fish. They don't have any feelings.


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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: LiquidSmoke]
    #4840556 - 10/23/05 05:15 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

mmm :thumbup:


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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: Shroomism]
    #4840582 - 10/23/05 05:50 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: MagicalMystery]
    #4840735 - 10/23/05 09:07 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

haha. I knew this thread would get some panties in a bunch.

Quote:

Rustifer said:
You do know that earth has had roughly the same amount of water for the past couple billion years right?




Yes, yes I do.

Quote:

Do you drive a car?




No, no I do not.

Quote:

what about the 40+ thousand gallons of water required to make your tires, yet alone the rest of you car.




Waste of water


Ok Looner, I'll bite. Please explain why all my points (which have been so neatly copy and pasted) are moot, and propoganda. Please back it up with scientific evidence. You do realize the cattle industry and the agriculture to sustain that cattle industry is largely responsible for us only having less than half of an Amazon Rainforest now right? I suppose you're right... we would be *much* better off without an Amazon Rainforest, the area of the most abundant and diverse lifeforms in the world.

I'm not saying meat is evil. I'm saying the obsessive meat industry and it's massive consumption without regard for anything is fucking insane.

LiquidSmock, last I checked they don't clearcut rainforests to farm fish.
Nor does the fishing industry produce a percentage of the waste that the beef and poultry industry does. Plus fish is good for you.


I can think of a few more points. Lactic Acid. Gall stones. Fat People. Heart Attacks. Do some research. Rustifier is the only one who made a good argument.


You guys all missed the main point.

1. Number of human beings who could be fed annually by the grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock: 1,300,000,000

2. Number of people who will starve to death this year: 60,000,000

3. Number of people would could be adequately fed by the grain saved if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10 percent: 60,000,000


You can feed 7 vegetarians with the grain it takes to produce enough meat to feed 1 meat eater.

But I guess that's what defines America. Excess, consumption, Greed..not giving a fuck.

"Who cares who starves to death.. as long as I have my filet mignon"

I'm not saying don't eat meat, I'm not preaching. I fucking eat meat. I'm just giving you guys the facts. No need to get all pissy.

Maybe you guys need more fruits and vegetables in your diet.. sounds like you're lacking some :wink:


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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: Shroomism]
    #4840795 - 10/23/05 09:37 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

The cow is a worthless animal.. Other than dairy production we would have no use for cows if we didnt eat them..

Soooo by eating beef we are effectively keeping cows from going extinct.

So eat some beef you hippy or your supporting the extinction of an entire species.


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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: GabbaDj]
    #4840814 - 10/23/05 09:52 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

nice post, Shroomism. I agree; eating meat is not a horrible evil, but there's no reason to go overboard on it. It would help humanity as a whole if we cut back on our meat consumption, thus providing more land for growing grain that is a much more efficient food. And as for GabbaDj's post, Shroomism wasn't saying that we should stop eating meat altogether, so no, he isn't advocating the extinction of cows.


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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: laotzu]
    #4840818 - 10/23/05 09:54 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

or she isn't advocating the extinction of cows; i'm not sure if Shroomism is a man or a woman.


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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: GabbaDj]
    #4840841 - 10/23/05 10:01 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Cows going extinct? Yeah right. There's more cows than there are humans.


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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: laotzu]
    #4840867 - 10/23/05 10:10 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

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or she isn't advocating the extinction of cows; i'm not sure if Shroomism is a man or a woman.




Nobody is :tongue:


Anyway..  What would we do with them all?  They make terrible pets and they cant be set free. 

They would all be slaughtered to free space for grain farms.


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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: Shroomism]
    #4840879 - 10/23/05 10:15 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

lol, i know you weren't making a serious point, but just for the record, there's only about 1.3 billion cows in the world compared to the 6.5 billion people in the world :wink:


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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: Shroomism]
    #4840884 - 10/23/05 10:15 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Im a vegi and I hate people...


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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: GabbaDj]
    #4840893 - 10/23/05 10:18 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

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Nobody is :tongue:


Anyway..  What would we do with them all?  They make terrible pets and they cant be set free. 

They would all be slaughtered to free space for grain farms.




Well, if people cut back on meat consumption, farmers would gradually cut back on how many cows they bred. So yes, cows would die in order to make room for grain fields, but eventually, we would reach a good equilibrium point.


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Re: 28 reasons not to eat meat [Re: laotzu]
    #4840899 - 10/23/05 10:21 AM (18 years, 3 months ago)

What is stupid is todays cow is not a natural animal. They were made by crazy breeding. An American cow would naturally die out if left on their own because they are not real animals they do not fit the rules of natural selection...


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