Friday, January 14, 2011

Did You Know???

  • Americans choose to eat less than 0.25% of the known edible food on the planet
  • Modern industrial fishing lines can be as long as 75 miles-the same distance as from sea level to space
  • Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change 
  • In the typical cage for egg-laying hens, each bird has 67 square inches of space-the size of this rectangle. Nearly all cage-free birds have approximately the same amount of space 
  • On average, Americans eat the equivalent of 21,000 entire animals in a lifetime
  • Nearly one-third of the land surface of the planet is dedicated to livestock 
  • Less than 1% of the animals killed for meat in America come from family farms 

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