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[Big_Bird]

Never in our history have humans consumed so much meat. Once, we would have had it now and again, but today we gobble it down like there is no tomorrow. And we want it every day, for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinnner and even in our snacks. And we want it cheap. Animals, enduring the horrific excessess of factory farming, pay a terrible price. But, will we too pay a horrible price?

Bird flu is the price of your �5 roast

[wannago]

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vegan good, meat producer bad ------- need more kool-aid

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[thepeel]

I don't think that is fair. Eating meat is hard on our environment, and our modern ways of farming seem to facilitate disease. Now, I'm no vegan. My family were (before BSE) in the cattle biz. I've got experience in the industry and am literally in love with steak. But even I have started to really reevaluate my dietary habits, and how what I eat is impacting my body, my finances and my "footprint" on the world.

I don't think we have to stop eating meat. We should eat less meat, in my opinion. Recently, I read an article about healthy eating that suggested treating meat like a side dish rather than a main dish. I think this is reasonable.

I always try to think of this as if I were an total stranger to earth, looking at us and trying to make sense of our actions. I don't know how a stranger would regard our fetish for eating flesh... And I really doubt that she or he would regard a major swine operation as anything but barbaric and disgusting.

[jinju]

Sorry, this is Red Dog lunacy territory.

[Big_Bird]

<Big_Bird finds herself nodding in agreement with BJWD, and nearly falls off her chair>

[jinju]

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[thepeel]

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[jinju]

[Big_Bird]

[thepeel]

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[Big_Bird]

To start you off, here is an alarming fact sheet by PETA.

Eating meat leaves behind an environmental toll that generations will be forced to pay

Pollution

The meat industry causes more water pollution in theUnited States than any other industry because theanimals raised for food produce 130 times moreexcrement than the entire human population�86,600 pounds per second. A typical pig factoryfarm generates raw waste equivalent to that of a city of 12,000 people.

Land

Of all agricultural land in the United States, 87 percent is used to raise animals for food. Twenty thousand pounds of potatoes can be grown on one acre of land, but only 165 pounds of beef can be produced in the same space.

Water

Raising animals for food consumes more than halfof all the water used in the United States. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of meat, but only 25 gallons to produce a pound of wheat. Theamount of water used in the production of the averagesteer could float a destroyer.

Deforestation

Rainforests are being destroyed at a rate of 125,000square miles per year to create space to raiseanimals for food. Fifty-five square feet of land are consumed for every quarter-pound fast-foodburger made of rainforest beef.

Energy

Raising animals for food requires more than one-thirdof all raw materials and fossil fuels used in the UnitedStates. Producing a single hamburger patty uses enough fossil fuel to drive a small car 20 miles and enough water for 17 showers.

[jinju]