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Cshiar - I have a chart in my room that shows the amount onf energy and water that goes into producing a pound of different kinda of food. Fruits, vegetables, grains, meats, dairy. It takes about 24 gallons of water to produce a pound of strawberries (lowest on the list) and i believe 600 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef. I can only imagine the amount of other resources that go to this. I worked on an ex girlfriend families dairy farm a few times. The way the animals were treated were appalling. They even admitted that. They explained to me to turn over a profit they cant really provide the most humane of accommodations.

And as Keith explains in section two, Political Vegetarians, eating soy burgers won’t save the planet, either. All those goofy vegetarian arguments about how many more people we could feed per acre if we all ate the crops instead of the animals who eat the crops are based on a flawed idea: that the animals who provide our meat are supposed to eat corn. They’re not. They’re supposed to eat grass. Keith recalculates the calories-per-acare figures assuming we were smart enough to raise our animals on their natural food, and not surprisingly, the disparity shrinks to nearly zero.

And feeding the masses is only part of the equation. When you raise animals in a pasture, you create topsoil — you literally can’t create topsoil without animals. But when you raise corn, you destroy topsoil. It’s mono-crop agriculture that uses extraordinary amounts of water and creates soil runoff. Then, of course, there’s all that fossil fuel required to keep the crops growing as the topsoil disappears. (Imagine the fun of explaining to your wild-eyed vegan friends that their “sustainable lifestyle” is enriching the oil industry.)

In part three, Nutritional Vegetarians, Keith recounts how her vegan diet destroyed her health. I’m sorry to say much of the damage is permanent. Her spine has degenerated, and it won’t come back. She spends much of her life in pain. I’m also sorry to say I know some vegetarians with ailments similar to hers, but unlike Keith, they refuse to connect the dots.

From a neat little article on a book about an ex-vegan who did a lot of research and debunks the 'vegetarian myths'.

http://www.fathead-movie.com/index.p...egetarian-myth