I am always worried about pesticides on my fruit and veggies, after reading this maybe I was focused on the wrong thing? I don't normally get into stuff like this but the facts are just to outstanding to ignore. It just shows you that we need to educate ourselves(which is tricky with the Internet, its hard to find non-biased materials) and prayerfully do what we feel is best for our families.
Number of Human beings that could be fed
by the grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock: 1,300,000,000
Human Population of the U.S.: 243,000,000
% of corn grown in U.S. being eaten by human beings: 20%
% of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 80%
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
Amount of meat imported annually by U.S.: 200,00,00 pounds
User of more than half of all the water used
for all purposes in the U.S.: livestock production
Water needed to produce 1 pound of wheat: 25 gallons
Water needed to produce 1 pound of meat 2,500
How frequently a heart attack kills in the U.S.: every 45 seconds
Amount you reduce your risk of heart attack by reducing
consumption of meat, dairy, and eggs 100%: 90%
The Dairy Council tells us: Milk is natures most perfect food.
The Dairy Council does not us:
Milk is natures most perfect food for a baby calf, who has four stomachs, will double its weight in 47 days, and is destined to weigh 300 pounds within a year.
Chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticide residue in the U.S. diet supplied by meat: 55%
Supplied by Dairy products:23%
Supplied by Veggies:6%
Supplied by Fruit:4%
Supplied by grains: 1%
Relative pesticide contamination in breast milk of meat eating mother's compared to pesticide contamination in breast milk of vegetarian mothers: 35 times as high
Sperm count of average male compared to 30 years ago: Down 30%
Principle reason for sterility and sperm count reduction of U.S. males:
Chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides
( including dioxin, DDT, etc)
% of hydrocarbon pesticide residues in American diet attributable to meats, dairy products, fish and eggs: 94%
% of total antibiotics used in U.S. fed routinely to Livestock: 55
% of staphylococci infections resistant to Penicillin in 1960: 5
in 1988: 91
Only man to win Ironman Triathlon more than twice: Dave Scott 6 time winner
Food choice Of Dave Scott: Vegetarian
I saw these Stats as I was reading a book and the Author had pulled these from 'Diet For A New America"by John Robbins. Now I have not read this book, and there were many more Stats I did not list..I have no clue how old these are I am sure now they have changed and need to be
re-evaluated but it got my mind thinking. I am obviously not going to pull all these things from my diet but it gets my wheels turning! I am not quite sure how we are gonna replace all the protein, and so forth but I am defiantly going to be looking for ways to adjust our diets!
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