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MEDIEVAL JAINISM : CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT
30-40 years. A livestock agriculture can pollute water supplies in two ways. One through livestock wastes and two through the wastes products of slaughter houses. A slaughter house can be a significant local problem also. Thus it can be concluded that an agriculture economy is much more efficient with the water supplies than the meat economy. Meat consumption is, thus, creating difficult problems with water, used in the world today and is disturbing our environment.
Energy
The food energy resources is becoming a serious problem in the developing countries in view of the rising population. The animal food production is tremendously
TABLE 2. Food calories produced, per calorie energy input, in several
plant and animal foods
Food
Food calories produced per calorie
of fossil fuel energy input
Corn (Mexico) Sorghum (Sudan) Rice (Philippines) Wheat (India) Pats (U.S.) Potatoes (U.S.) Corn (U.S.) Wheat (U.S.) Soybeans (U.S.) Rice (U.S.) Beef (rangeland, U.S.) Eggs (U.S.) Lamb (rangeland, U.S.) Milk (U.S.) Broilers (U.S.) Catfish (U.S.) Beef (feedlot, U.S.)
83.33 38.46 9.50 9.06 2.47 2.18 1.80 1.71 1.45 1.25 0.28 0.25 0.16 0.14 0.07 0.04 0.03
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