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average of 2500 gallons of water as much as a typical family uses in a month. Rice takes more water that any other grain, but even rice requires only 1/10th as much water per pound of production
as meat.
Yet another example is one acre of land can grow 20000 pounds of potatoes, but if it were to be directed to produce cattle feeds, it can produce only about 165 pounds of beef.
Imagine the waste of resources through feeding animals and dead meat to provide food for humans, when more rationally humans and animals could all share nature's bounty of fruits and vegetable to survive and grow a lot of which is perishing daily unused.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVE
A very harmful impact of consumption of meat products is the rapid extinction of many species at the rate of 1000 species a year. This is seriously disturbing the global life system pattern.
Another disastrous impact is environmental impoverishment. For instance, in USA alone since 1960 the rate of deforestation has been one acre every second. Disappearing forest cover all over the world has adversely affected the climate. Lots of beef for consumption in USA comes from Central and South America, where as a result rain forest have been destroyed and converted into pastures for raising cattle, Central America which had 1,30,000 Sq. miles of virgin rare forests in 1960 is now left with rapidly diminishing 80000 Sq. miles cover of rain forests.
It is a well-known fact that rain forests constitute world's oldest eco-system on earth and have been sources of substantial percentage of Earth's oxygen supplies. Aren't we moving towards depriving
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