Need Motivation to Eat Less Meat and More Plants? Part 10 of 12
Today, stats about hunger in the world, and how this is related to a plant-based diet:
- Number of UNDERFED and malnourished people in the world: 1.2 billion
- Number of OVERFED and malnourished people in the world: 1.2 billion
- Both groups have high levels of sickness and disability and shortened life expectancies
- Weight of the world’s cattle compared to weight of the world’s people: nearly double
- Area of Earth’s total land mass used as pasture for cattle/livestock: 50%
- Grassland needed to support one cow under optimal conditions: 2.5 acres
- Grassland needed to support one cow under much more common marginal conditions: 50 acres
- Pounds of grain needed to produce 1 lb. of beef: 17
- U.S. corn eaten by people: 2 percent
- U.S. corn eaten by livestock: 77 percent
- U.S. farmland producing vegetables: 4 million acres
- U.S. farmland producing hay for livestock: 56 million acres
- U.S. grain and cereals fed to livestock: 70 percent
- Human beings who could be fed by the grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock: 1,400,000,000
- World’s population living in the U.S.: 4 percent
- World’s beef eaten in the U.S.: 23 percent
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