Jain Study Center NC Raleigh 1999 08 Twenty Years

SR No.: 528542
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Study Center NC Raleigh
Publisher: USA Jain Study Center NC Raleigh
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 122
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, USA_Souvenir Jain Center NC Raleigh, & USA
File Size: 15 MB

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"HOW TO WIN AN ARGUMENT WITH A MEAT EATER" If you are vegetarian, chances are, people interested in being vegetarian will ask you for Information about it.
That is why, even if you're vegetarlan, It's important to know the facts about vegetarianism. THE HUNGER ARGUMENT
- Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of meat: 2,500
- Years the world's known oil reserves would last if every human ate a - Number of people worldwide who will die as a result of malnutrition this
meat-centered diet: 13 year: 20 million
Years they would last if human beings no longer ate meat: 260 -Number of people who could be adequately fed using land freed if
- Percentage of all raw materials (base products of farming, forestry and Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10%: 60 million
mining, including fossil fuels) consumed by U.S. that is devoted to the - Percentage of com grown in the U.S. eaten by people: 20
production of livestock: 33 - Percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 80
- Percentage of all raw materials consumed by the U.S. needed to produce - Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 90
a complete vegetarian diet: 2 - How frequently a child dies as a result of malnutrition: every 2.3 seconds - Percentage of U.S. farmland devoted to beef production: 56
THE ANTIBIOTIC ARGUMENT Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce a pound of edible flesh from feedlot beet: 16
- Percentage of U.S. antibiotics fed to livestock: 55
- Percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin in 1960: 13 THE ENVIRONMENTAL ARGUMENT
- Percentage resistant in 1988: 91
- Response of European Economic Community to routine feeding of • Primary cause of global warming due to greenhouse effect: carbon
antibiotics to livestock: ban dioxide emissions from fossil fuels
- Response of U.S. meat and pharmaceutical industries to routine feeding -Fossil fuels needed to produce meat-centered diet vs. a meat-free diet:
of antibiotics to livestock: full and complele support three times more . Principle historic cause of demise of great civilizations: Topsoll depletion - Percentage of U.S. topsoil lost to date: 75
THE PESTICIDE ARGUMENT - Percentage of U.S. topsoil loss directly related to livestock raising: 85 - Number of acres of U.S.forest cleared for cropland to produce
Common belief. U.S. Department of Agriculture protects our health meat-centered diet: 260 million
through meat inspection - Area of tropical rainforest consumed in every quarter-pound of rainforest
- Reality: fewer than 1 out of every 250,000 slaughtered animals is tested beet: 55 square feet
for toxic chemical residues - Current rate of species extinction due to destruction of tropical rainforests
- Leading source of pesticide residues in the U.S. diet: Meat -55% for meat grazing and other uses: 1,000 per year
Second leading source of pesticide residues in U.S. diet: - Production of excrement by total U.S. human population: 12,000 pounds
Dairy Products - 23 % per second
- Total pesticide residues in U.S. diet supplied by: Vegetables - 6%, Fruits Production of excrement by U.S. livestock population: 250,000 pounds
4%, Grains - 1% per second
- Percentage of U.S. mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT: 99 - Sewage systems in U.S. cities: Common
- Percentage of U.S. vegetarian mother's milk containing significant levels - Sewage systems in U.S.feedlots: Ni
of DDT: 8
Contamination of breast milk, due to chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides THE HUMAN HEALTH ARGUMENT
in animal products, found in meat-eating mothers vs. non-meat eating
mothers: 35 times higher - Most common cause of death in the U.S.: heart attack - How frequently a heart attack kills in the U.S.: every 25 seconds
THE ETHICAL ARGUMENT • Average U.S. man's risk of death from heart attack: 50 percent Risk of average U.S. man who eats no meat: 15 percent
- Number of animals killed for meat per hour in the U.S.: 500,000 - Risk of average U.S. man who eats no meat, dairy or eggs: 4 percent
- Number of 700-plus pound pigs confined to a space the size of a twin bed - Nutrition training received by average U.S. physician during four years in
in typical factory fam: 3 medical school: 2.5 hours
- Reason today's veal is so tender: Calves never allowed to move a single - Leading sources of saturated fat and cholesterol in American diets: Meat,
step, so as to not develop muscle dairy products and eggs
• Occupation with highest turnover rate in U.S.: slaughterhouse worker - Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat meat dally compared
- Original actor to play Ronald McDonald: Jeff Juliano to less than once a week: 3.8 times
- Diet now followed by Jeff Juliano: Vegetarian - Increased risk of fatal prostate cancer for men who consume meat, cheese, eggs and milk daily vs. Sparingly or not at all: 3.6 times.
THE SURVIVAL ARGUMENT
THE NATURAL RESOURCES ARGUMENT
- Athlete to win Ironman Triathlon more than twice: Dave Scott (Six-time
winner) User of more than half of all water used for all purposes in the U.S.:
- Food choice of Dave Scott: Vegetarian livestock production
- Largest meat eater that ever lived: Tyrannosaurus Rex - Amount of water used in production of the average cow: sufficient to float
Last sighting of T. Rex: 100,000,000 B.C. a U.S. Naval destroyer - Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of wheat: 25
For more facts about how a plant-based diet benefits human health and the health of the planet. read Diet for A New America, by John Robbins, or contact Earth Save.
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