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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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