Hættum að borða kjöt.
17.3.2012 | 22:34
http://www.herad.is/y04/1/2011-01-15-haettum-ad-borda-kjot.htm
Hættum að borða kjöt.
http://isholf.is/jonasg/ymislegt/howto102.html#hunger
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Það er eina raunhæfa aðgerðin til að minnka,
eða koma í veg fyrir hungur.
Það er eina raunhæfa aðgerðin til að minnka,
eða koma í veg fyrir loftslagsvandan.
Það er eina raunhæfa aðgerðin til að minnka,
eða koma í veg fyrir vatnsskort.
Það er eina raunhæfa aðgerðin til að minnka,
eða koma í veg fyrir skógareyðingu.
Það er eina raunhæfa aðgerðin til að minnka,
eða koma í veg fyrir mengun..
Það er eina raunhæfa leiðin til að minnka,
stórminnka notkun á olíu, og
öðrum náttúru auðlindum.
http://www.vegsource.com/news/2009/09/how-to-win-an-argument-with-a-meat-eater.html
The Natural Resources Argument
User of more than half of all water used for all purposes in the U.S.: livestock production
Amount of water used in production of the average cow: sufficient to float a destroyer
Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of wheat:25
Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of California beef: 5,000
Years the world's known oil reserves would last if every human ate a meat-centered diet: 13
Years they would last if human beings no longer ate meat: 260
Calories of fossil fuel expended to get 1 calory of protein from beef: 78
To get 1 calory of protein from soybeans: 2
Percentage of all raw materials (base products of farming, forestry and mining, including fossil fuels) consumed by U.S. that is devoted to the production of livestock: 33
Percentage of all raw materials consumed by the U.S. needed to produce a complete vegetarian diet: 2
The Hunger Argument
Number of people worldwide who will die as a result of malnutrition this year: 20 million
Number of people who could be adequately fed using land freed if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10%: 100 million
Percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by people: 20
Percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 80
Percentage of oats grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock: 95
Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 90
How frequently a child dies as a result of malnutrition: every 2.3 seconds
Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on an acre: 40,000
Pounds of beef produced on an acre: 250
Percentage of U.S. farmland devoted to beef production: 56
Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce a pound of edible flesh from feedlot beef: 16
Egilsstadir, 15.01.2011 JG
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