Why vegetarian?

just a few of the infinite reasons

• obviously, to avoid the unnatural suffering of other animals
• 50% of ALL land in North America is used entirely for the inhumane raising of beef cattle
• 70% of public land in the west is used for cattle ranching
• the U.S. has lost 2/3's of its topsoil. the major factor in this loss is overgrazing (reponsible for 85% of the total topsoil loss)
• 16 lbs. of wheat are needed to produce 1 lb. of beef. 1 lb. of wheat is neede to make 1 lb. of bread.
• 20,000 potatoes can be grown on one acre of land, as opposed to 165 lbs. of beef which can be produced on the same plot of land
• livestock eat 80% of all corn and 955 of all grain grown in the U.S. 60 million people will starve to death this year. if Americans cut meat intake by 10%, 60 million people could be fed with the grain saved alone
• 20 vegetarians could live off the same area of land needed to feed one person eating meat
• a vegetarian humanity could be 10 times our current population without the problems of starvation and overpopulation
• over 50% of tropical rainforest destruction is linked to cattle ranching. every 1/4 lb. hamburger made from these animals is responsible for the destruction of 55 square feet of rainforest
• at the current rate, the rainforests will be gone by 2010, and with it, 500,000 species inhabiting it
• deforestation caused by cattle ranching and methane gas created (as the by-product of metabolictic activity) by the unnaturally high population of cattle are leading causes of the greenhouse effect and other environmental threats
• more than 50% percent of males in the U.S. die of heart attacks and other related diseases each year. this ain't from eating lettuce, folks