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| Number of people worldwide who will die as a result of malnutrition this year |
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| Number of people who could be adequately fed using land freed if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10% |
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| Percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by people |
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| Percentage of corn grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock |
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| Percentage of oats grown in the U.S. eaten by livestock |
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| Percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock |
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| How frequently a child dies as a result of malnutrition |
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| Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on an acre |
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| Pounds of beef produced on an acre |
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| Percentage of U.S. farmland devoted to beef production |
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| Pounds of grain and soybeans needed to produce a pound of edible flesh from feedlot beef |
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| Primary cause of greenhouse effect |
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| carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels |
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| Fossil fuels needed to produce meat-centered diet vs. a meat-free diet |
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| Percentage of U.S. topsoil lost to date |
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| Percentage of U.S. topsoil loss directly related to livestock raising |
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| Number of acres of U.S. forest cleared for cropland to produce meat-centered diet |
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| Amount of meat imported to U.S. annually from Central and South America |
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| Percentage of Central American children under the age of five who are undernourished |
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| Area of tropical rainforest consumed in every quarter-pound of rainforest beef |
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| Current rate of species extinction due to destruction of tropical rainforests for meat grazing and other uses |
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| Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat meat daily compared to less than once a week |
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| Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat eggs daily compared to once a week |
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| Increased risk of breast cancer for women who eat butter and cheese 2-4 times a week |
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| Increased risk of fatal ovarian cancer for women who eat eggs 3 or more times a week vs. less than once a week |
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| Increased risk of fatal prostate cancer for men who consume meat, cheese, eggs and milk daily vs. sparingly or not at all |
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| Number of U.S. medical schools |
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| Number of U.S. medical schools requiring a course in nutrition |
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| Nutrition training received by average U.S. physician during four years in medical school |
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| Most common cause of death in the U.S. |
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| How frequently a heart attack kills in the U.S. |
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| Average U.S. man's risk of death from heart attack |
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| Risk of death from heart attack for average U.S. man who eats no meat |
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| Risk of death from heart attack for average U.S. man who eats no meat, dairy, or eggs |
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| Amount you reduce risk of heart attack if you reduce consumption of meat, dairy and eggs by 10 percent |
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| Amount you reduce risk of heart attack if you reduce consumption of meat, dairy and eggs by 50 percent |
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| Amount you reduce risk of heart attack if you eliminate meat, dairy and eggs from your diet |
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| Average cholesterol level of people eating meat-centered-diet |
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| Chance of dying from heart disease if you are male and your blood cholesterol level is 210 mg/dl |
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| User of more than half of all water used for all purposes in the U.S. |
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| Amount of water used in production of the average cow |
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| sufficient to float a destroyer |
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| Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of wheat |
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| Gallons of water needed to produce a pound of California beef |
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| Years the world's known oil reserves would last if every human ate a meat-centered diet |
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| Years the world's known oil reserves would last if human beings no longer ate meat |
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| Calories of fossil fuel expended to get 1 calorie of protein from beef |
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| Calories of fossil fuel expended to get 1 calorie of protein from soybeans |
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| Percentage of all raw materials (base products of farming, forestry and mining, including fossil fuels) consumed by U.S. that is devoted to the production of livestock |
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| Percentage of all raw materials consumed by the U.S. needed to produce a complete vegetarian diet |
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| Percentage of U.S. antibiotics fed to livestock |
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| Percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin in 1960 |
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| Percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin in 1988 |
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| Response of European Economic Community to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock |
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| Response of U.S. meat and pharmaceutical industries to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock |
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| full and complete support |
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| Common belief: U.S. Department of Agriculture protects our health through meat inspection |
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| Reality: fewer than 1 out of every 250,000 slaughtered animals is tested for toxic chemical residues |
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| Percentage of U.S. mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT |
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| Percentage of U.S. vegetarian mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT |
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| Contamination of breast milk, due to chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides in animal products, found in meat-eating mothers vs. non-meat eating mothers |
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| Amount of Dieldrin ingested by the average breast-fed American infant |
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| 9 times the permissible level |
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| Number of animals killed for meat per hour in the U.S. |
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| Occupation with highest turnover rate in U.S. |
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| Occupation with highest rate of on-the-job-injury in U.S. |
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