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>Cows contribute to global warming otherwise known
as the "greenhouse effect" due to the amount of fossil fuels it takes to
maintain a meat diet. It takes three times more fuel than it does to produce a vegetarian
diet.
>Most food animals are killed by the process of Kosher slaughter. Kosher slaughter
involves hanging an animal particullarly a cow or pig by its hooves. The animal's neck is
cut without any kind of anethesia. The animal hangs and bleeds to death.
>260 million acres of forest in the United States have been cleared in order to
maintain a meat- centered diet.
>55 square feet of rainforest is destroyed in order to produce one quarter of a pound
of rainforest beef.
>1,000 rainforest species become extinct every year because people destroy the
rainforest for cattle grazing.
>A man who eats meat has a 50% greater chance of dying from a heart attack. A man who
does not eat meat only has a 15% chance of dying from a heart attack.
>Women who eat eggs 3 times or more a week have a risk 3 times higher of developing
ovarian cancer than those women who consume eggs less than once a week.
>Women who consume meat on a daily basis has 3.8 times the risk of developing breast
cancer than women who eat meat less than once a week.
>660,000 animals are murdered in the United States every hour for their flesh! |
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