Numbers That Can Help Save the Environment

18% of all greenhouse gases come from livestock. Producing and consuming meat takes 16 times more energy and resources than its vegetable equivalent. For every .45kg of beef we do not eat, we save 11,000-19,000 liters of water we avoid polluting our streams and rivers better that any other single recycling effort, we avoid the destruction of topsoil and tropical forest if the average car produces 3kg/day of CO2 to clear rainforest to produce beef for one hamburger produces 75kg of CO2 the same damage as driving your car for more than three weeks. 37,000 cows consume 25 tons of corn every hour. 4.5 liters of oil are used to make the fertilizer for each bushel of corn. The cow will have consumed 1,000 liters of oil. Livestock now produces 130 times the amount of waste that people do--bubbling with chemicals and disease-bearing organism that are poisoning rivers, killing fish and getting into human drinking water.