Need Motivation to Eat Less Meat and More Plants? Part 11 of 12

Today, more info on world hunger and why you’re contributing to overconsumption of resources eating high on the food chain:

Number of people whose food energy needs can be met by the food produced on 2.5 acres of land, if the land is producing . . .

Cabbage                     23 people

Potatoes                      22 people

Rice                               19 people

Corn                             17 people

Wheat                         15 people

Chicken                         2 people

Milk                                 2 people

Eggs                                  1 person

Beef                               1 person

Grain needed to adequately feed every person on the planet who dies of hunger annually: 12 million tons

Amount Americans would have to reduce their beef consumption to save 12 million tons of grain: 10 percent

Amount of fish caught per person, worldwide, sold for human consumption (1996): 16 kg

Amount of marine life that was hauled up with the fish and discarded, per person (1996): 200 kg

Amount of world’s fish catch fed to livestock: 50%, more than the combined weight of the U.S. human population

Newsweek quote: “The amount of water that goes into a 1,000 pound steer would float a (Naval) destroyer.”

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