of the world's goods and services > The world's poorest 20% con- sumes 1.3% of the world's goods
and services > North Americans and Europeans spend more money on pet food than it wou Id take to provide everyone in the world with basic health care
HOW WE USE THE LAND
• Number of gallons of water used to produce a quarter pound of beef: 100
• Percent of energy lost between levels of the food chain: 80
Me Irta~pi ness -Billions of dollars spent at US McDonalds in 1999: 19 -Number of new restaurants McDonalds plans to add w0fldwide in 2000: 1900
c > 265
• Corn or wheat yields 22 times more protein per calorie of fos- sil fuel expended than does beef produced on the modern feedlot
• The production of soybeans is 40 times more energy efficient than the production of modern beef
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IF YOU DON'T EAT YOUR MEAT, YOU N'T HAVE ANY PUDDING ...
the average American consumes each year:
> POUNDS OF MEAT CONSUMED EACH YEAR BY SOMEONE IN BANGLADESH:
6.5
> MORE THAN 50% OF ALL ADULT AMERICANS ARE OVERWEIGHT
> Number of people who starve to death each year: 33,000
-The average American produces over half a ton of trash per year -Only 5% of that is recycled
BUT ...
-The 56 million tons of material America does recycle and com- post each year has a total market value of over $3.6 billion
