The "inbred royalty" was also completely right... the amount of feed/water it takes to raise one cattle so that you can enjoy your steak with dinner is disgusting.
- 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 to produce a pound of wheat: 25
- Gallons to produce a pound of meat: 2,500
- Cost of common hamburger if water used by meat industry was not subsidized by the - U.S. taxpayer: $35 a pound
- Current cost of a pound of protein from beefsteak, if water was no longer subsidized: $89.
- 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
- Barrels of oil imported into U.S. daily: 6.8 million
- Percentage of fossil fuel energy returned as food energy by the most efficientfactory farming of meat: 34.5 percent.
- Percentage returned from least efficient plant food: 328 percent
- Percentage of raw materials consumed by U.S. to produce present meat-centered diet: 33
Our entire species is headed towards sustainability, because we fucked up so bad there is no alternative. If you don't like it, leave
