zen_waters | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 13 2007 | vegan, climate change
Meat consumption and climate change
Our nation's great consumption of meat, eggs, and dairy products amplifies all of these energy needs many fold since roughly 80 percent of all corn and other grains grown in this country go to feed animals, not people. Not only does our annual per capita consumption of about 230 pounds of meat require an ocean of oil, it leaves us drowning in twice the government's daily recommended allowance of protein.
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