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land. It is estimated that for every hamburger, 55<br />

square feet of rainforest land is destroyed.<br />

· Additionally for this one hamburger, 500 pounds<br />

of Carbon Dioxide (one of the main gases leading to<br />

the global warming problem) are released into the<br />

air.<br />

· Since 1967, one acre of American forest has been<br />

destroyed every five seconds, in order to become<br />

“grazing land” for the animals that will become dinner.<br />

If the present trend continues, the country that was<br />

seen as the “land of plenty” will be completely stripped<br />

bare of all its forests in 50 years. Do not let Europe<br />

make the same mistake.<br />

Are you concerned about poverty in the world?<br />

· A pound of protein from meat costs $15.40, but a<br />

pound of protein from wheat costs $1.50.<br />

· So, meat costs 10 times as much for the same<br />

nutritional value.<br />

· Could we not use that money for much better<br />

causes? Is there no more important use for that money<br />

than to kill animals?<br />

Are you aware of the need to conserve water?<br />

· The production of 1 pound of beef takes 2500<br />

gallons of water.<br />

· The production of 1 pound of bread takes 25 gallons<br />

of water<br />

· So, we would waste 100 times less water if we ate<br />

wheat instead of meat.<br />

Health issues<br />

I am not going to use this space to tell you about all the<br />

health reasons to eat a vegetarian diet. Every medical text,<br />

every health book in every bookstore or library talks about<br />

the undeniable link between high-fat diets and heart<br />

disease or cancer. It is well known that people who eat<br />

meat-based diets have anywhere from 2 to 20 times higher<br />

rates of death from heart disease and cancer than<br />

vegetarians.<br />

A recent British study found that vegetarians had a 40%<br />

lower risk of cancer and a 20% lower risk of death from<br />

any cause than meat eaters.<br />

In fact, Dr. Dean Ornish, M.D. a cardiac specialist in<br />

California, USA is the first allopathic doctor ever to be able<br />

to “cure” heart disease. Others have slowed the process<br />

but never before has it been truly cured. His “cure” consists<br />

of a pure vegetarian diet, yoga and meditation.<br />

Are you worried about our rapidly diminishing energy<br />

resources?<br />

· The world’s petroleum resources would last only<br />

13 years on a meat-based diet, but 260 years on a<br />

A health issue less frequently discussed is the antibiotics<br />

vegetarian diet.<br />

factor. The animals are loaded up with antibiotics in order<br />

to prevent the diseases that their poor treatment causes.<br />

The environments are so unsanitary that the animals have<br />

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