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The Harvard Nurses Study followed nearly 80,000 women from 1980
to 1992 between the ages of 34 and 59 to determine the relationship between
milk consumption and osteoporosis. Those women drinking 3 to 5 glasses of milk
per day, actually had more bone breaks than those women drinking
1 glass per week or less!
Similar results were found in a study from Australia.
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This following is a reprint of REALITIES 1989, which are
facts excerpted from the Pulitzer Prize nominated "Diet for a New America"
by John Robbins. Keep in mind the figures quoted are not at today's values.
However, the points are still clear.
Human population of United States:
243,000,000
Number of Human beings who could be fed
by the grain and soybeanseaten by U. S. livestock: 1,300,000,000
Sacred food of
Native Americans: Corn
Percentage
of corn grown in United States eaten by human beings: 20
Percentage of corn grown in
United States eaten by livestock: 80
Percentage of oats grown in
United States eaten by livestock: 95
Percentage of protein wasted by
cycling grain through livestock: 90
Percentage of carbohydrate
wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 99
Percentage of dietary fibre
wasted by cycling grain through livestock: 100
How frequently a child dies of
starvation: Every 2 seconds
Pounds of potatoes that can be
grown on 1 acre of land: 20,000
Pounds of beef that can be
produced on 1 acre of land: 165
Percentage of U.S. agricultural
land used to produce beef: 56
Pounds of grain and soybeans
needed to produce 1 pound of feedlot beef: 16
Pounds of protein fed to
chickens to produce 1 pound of protein as chicken flesh:
5 pounds
Pounds of protein fed to hogs to
produce 1 pound of protein as hog flesh: 7.5 pounds
Number of children who starve to
death every day: 40,000
Number of pure vegetarians who can be
fed on the amount of land needed to feed 1 person consuming
meat-based diet: 20
Number of people who will starve to
death this year: 60,000,000
Number of people who could be adequately
fed by the grain saved if Americans reduced
their intake of meat
by 10%: 60,000,000
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Historic cause of demise of many great
civilisations: Topsoil depletion
Percentage of original U.S. topsoil lost
to date: 75
Amount of U.S. cropland lost each year
to soil erosion: 4,000,000 acres (size of Connecticut)
Percentage of U.S. topsoil loss directly
associated with livestock raising: 85
Number of acres of U.S. forest which
have been cleared to create cropland to produce a meat-centred
diet: 260,000,000
How often an acre of U.S. trees
disappears: Every 8 seconds
Amount of trees spared per year by each
individual who switches to a pure vegetarian diet: 1 acre
A driving force behind the destruction
of the tropical rainforests: American meat habit
Amount of meat imported annually by U.S.
from Costa Rica, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and
Panama: Less than the average American housecat
Current rate of species extinction due
to destruction of tropical rainforests and related habitats:
1000/year
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User of more than half of all water used
for all purposes in the United States: Livestock production
Quantity of water used in the production
of the average cow sufficient to: float a destroyer
Water needed to produce 1 pound of
wheat: 25 gallons
Water needed to produce 1 pound of meat:
2,500 gallons
Cost of common hamburger meat if water
used by meat industry was not subsidised by U.S. taxpayers:
$35/pound
Current cost for pound of protein from
wheat: $1.50
Current cost for pound of protein from
beefsteak: $15.40
Cost for pound of protein from beefsteak
if U.S. taxpayers ceased subsidising meat industry's use of
water: $89
Length of time world's petroleum
reserves would last if all human beings ate meat-centred diet: 13
years
Length of time world's petroleum
reserves would last if all human beings ate vegetarian diet: 260
years
Principal reason for U.S. military
intervention in Persian Gulf:
Dependence on foreign oil: Barrels of
oil imported daily by U.S.: 6,800,000
Percentage of energy return (as food
energy per fossil energy expended) of most energy efficient
farming of meat: 34.5%
Percentage of energy return (as food
energy per fossil energy expended) of least energy efficient
plant food: 328%
Pounds of soybeans produced by the
amount of fossil fuel needed to produce 1 pound of feedlot beef:
40
Percentage of raw materials consumed in
U.S. for all purposes presently consumed to produce current
meat-centred diet: 33
Percentage of raw materials consumed in
U.S. for all purposes needed to produce fully vegetarian diet: 2
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Production of excrement by total U.S.
human population: 12,000 lbs./sec
Production of excrement by U.S.
Livestock: 250,000 pounds/second
Sewage systems in U.S. cities: Common
Sewage systems in U.S. feedlots: Nil
Amount of waste produced annually by
U.S. livestock in confinement operations which is not recycled: 1
billion tons
Relative concentration of feedlot wastes
compared to raw domestic sewage: Ten to several hundred times
more highly concentrated
Where feedlot waste often ends up: In
our water
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Number of U.S. medical schools: 125
Number of U.S. medical schools with a
required course in nutrition: 30
Training in nutrition received during 4
years of medical school by average U.S. physician: 2.5 hours
How frequently a heart attack strikes in
U.S.: Every 25 seconds
How frequently a heart attack kills in
U.S.: Every 45 seconds
Most common cause of death in U.S.:
Heart attack
Risk of death from heart attack by
average American man: 50%
Risk of death from heart attack by
average American vegetarian man: 15%
Risk of death from heart attack by
average American purely vegetarian man: 4%
Amount you reduce your risk of heart
attack by reducing your consumption of meat, dairy products and
eggs 10%: 9%
Amount you reduce your risk of heart
attack by reducing your consumption of meat, dairy products and
eggs 50%: 45%
Amount you reduce your risk of heart
attack by reducing your consumption of meat, dairy products and
eggs 100%: 90%
Rise in blood cholesterol from consuming
1 egg per day: 12%
Rise in heart attack risk from 12% rise
in blood cholesterol: 24%
Meat, dairy and egg industries claim
there is no reason to be concerned about your blood cholesterol
as long as it is: "normal"
Your risk of dying a disease caused by
clogged arteries if your blood cholesterol is "normal":
over 50%
Your risk of dying of a disease caused
by clogged arteries if you do not consume saturated fat and
cholesterol: 5%
Leading sources of saturated fat and
cholesterol in American diets: Meat, dairy products and eggs
Hollywood celebrity paid by Meat Board
to tout beef as "Real food for real people": James
Garner
Medical event experienced by James
Garner in April, 1988: Quintuple coronary artery bypass surgery
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World populations with high meat intakes
who do not have correspondingly high rates of colon cancer: None
World populations with low meat intakes
who do not have correspondingly low rates of colon cancer: None
Increased risk of breast cancer for
women who eat meat daily compared to women who eat meat less than
once a week: 4 times higher
Egg Board's advertising slogan: The
incredible edible egg
Photographs often accompanying the egg
board's slogan:
Young women in bathing suits,
emphasising the shape of their breasts
Increased risk of breast cancer for
women who eat eggs daily compared to women who eat eggs less than
once a week: 3 times higher
Milk Producer's original ad campaign
slogan: "Everyone needs milk."
What the Federal Trade Commission called
the "Everyone needs milk" slogan: "False,
misleading and deceptive"
Milk Producer's revised campaign slogan:
"Milk has something for everybody."
Increased risk of breast cancer for
women who eat butter and cheese 3 or more times a week compared
to women who eat these foods
less than once a week: 3 times higher
Part of female chicken's body that
produces eggs: Ovaries
Increased risk of fatal ovarian cancer
for women who eat eggs 3 or more times a week compared to women
who eat eggs less than once a week: 3 times higher
Foods males in U.S. are conditioned to
think of as "manly": Animal products
Increased risk of fatal prostate cancer
for men who consume meats, cheese, eggs and milk daily compared
to men who eat these foods
sparingly or not at all: 3.6 times
higher
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The Meat Board tells us: "Today's
meats are low in fat."
The Meat Board shows us: A serving of
beef they claim has "only 300 calories".
The Meat Board doesn't tell us: The
serving of beef they show us is only 3 ounces (half the size of
an average serving of beef) and has
been surgically defatted with a scalpel.
The dairy industry tells us: Whole milk
is 3.5% fat.
The dairy industry doesn't tell us: That
3.5% figure is based on weight and most of the weight in milk is
water.
The dairy industry doesn't want us to
know: The amount of calories as fat in whole milk is 50%.
Oscar Mayer tells us: It is a
"myth" that hot dogs are fatty.
Oscar Mayer demonstrates their point
favourably comparing the fattiness of hot dogs to such low fat
bastions as: Margarine, mayonnaise,
salad dressing and cream cheese.
The Dairy Council tells us: Milk is
nature's most perfect food.
The Dairy Council doesn't tell us: Milk
is nature's most perfect food for a baby calf, who has four
stomachs, will double its weight in 47
days, and is destined to weigh 300
pounds within a year.
The Dairy Council tells children: To
grow up big and strong drink lots of milk.
The Dairy Council occasionally tells
children: The enzyme necessary for digestion of milk is lactase.
The Dairy Council never tells children:
20% of Caucasian children and 80% of Black children have no
lactase in their intestines.
The meat, dairy and egg industries tell
us: Animal products constitute 2 of the "Basic 4" food
groups.
The meat, dairy and egg industries don't
tell us: There were originally 12 official basic food groups,
before these industries applied enormous political pressure on
behalf of their products.
The meat, dairy, and egg industries tell
us: We are well-fed only with animal products.
The meat, dairy, and egg industries
don't tell us: The diseases which are commonly prevented,
consistently improved, and sometimes cured by a low-fat
vegetarian diet include:
Strokes Heart disease Osteoporosis
Kidney Stones
Breast cancer Colon cancer Prostate
cancer Pancreatic cancer
Ovarian cancer Cervical cancer
Stomach cancer Endometrial cancer
Diabetes Hypoglycaemia Kidney
disease Peptic ulcers
Constipation Haemorrhoids Hiatal
hernias Diverticulosis
Obesity Gallstones Hypertension
Asthma
Irritable colon syndrome
Salmonellosis Trichinosis
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Chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticide
residues in the U.S. diet supplied by meat: 55%
Supplied by Dairy products: 23%
Supplied by vegetables: 6%
Supplied by fruits: 4%
Supplied by grains: 1%
Percentage of U.S. mother's milk
containing significant levels of DDT: 99%
Percentage of U.S. vegetarian mother's
milk containing significant levels of DDT: 8%
Relative pesticide contamination in
breast milk of meat-eating mothers compared to pesticide
contamination in breast milk of vegetarian
mothers: 35 times as high
Percentage of male college students
sterile in 1950: .5
Percentage of male college students
sterile in 1978: 25
Sperm count of average American male
compared to 30 years ago: Down 30%
Principle reason for sterility and sperm
count reduction of U.S. males:
Chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides
(including dioxin, DDT, etc.)
Percentage of hydrocarbon pesticide
residues in American diet attributable
to meats, dairy products, fish and eggs:
94%
The Meat Board tells us Not to be
concerned about the dioxins and other pesticides in today's beef
because: the quantities are so small
The Meat Board doesn't want us to know:
How potent dioxin and other pesticides are
The Meat Board particularly doesn't want
us to know: A mere ounce of dioxin could kill 10 million people
The USDA tells us: Our meat is inspected
The USDA doesn't tell us: Less than 1
out of every quarter million slaughtered animals is tested for
toxic chemical residues
The dye used for many years by the USDA
for many years to stamp meats "Choice",
"Prime", or "U.S. No. 1 USDA": Violet dye No.
1
Current status of Violet Dye No. 1:
Banned as proven carcinogen
Wingspan of average Leghorn chicken: 26
inches
Space average leghorn chicken given in
egg factories: 6 inches
Number of 700 plus pound pigs confined
to space the size of a twin bed in typical factory farm: 3
Reason today's veal is so tender: Calves
never allowed to take a single step
Reason today's veal is whitish-pink:
Calves force fed on anaemia producing diet
McDonald's brags: 60 Billion sold
McDonald's doesn't brag about: 50
million butchered
McDonald's clown, Ronald McDonald, tells
children: Hamburgers grow in hamburger patches and love to be
eaten.
McDonald's clown, Ronald McDonald,
doesn't tell children:
Hamburgers are ground up cows who've had
their throats slit by machetes or their brains bashed in by
sledgehammers.
Original actor to play Ronald McDonald:
Jeff Juliano
Diet now followed by Jeff Juliano:
Vegetarian
Number of animals killed for meat per
hour in U.S.: 500,000
Occupation with highest turnover rate in
U.S.: Slaughterhouse worker
Occupation with highest employee rate of
injury in U.S.: Slaughter-house worker
Cost to render an animal unconscious
prior to slaughter with captive bolt pistol so that process is
done humanely: 1 penny Reason given
by meat industry for not utilising
captive bolt pistol:
Too expensive
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Percentage of total antibiotics used in
U.S. fed routinely to livestock: 55
Percentage of staphylococci infections
resistant to penicillin in 1960: 13
Percentage of staphylococci infections
resistant to penicillin in 1988: 91
Reason: Breeding of antibiotic resistant
bacteria in factory farms due to routine feeding of antibiotics
to livestock
Effectiveness of all
"wonder-drug" antibiotics: Declining rapidly
Reason: Breeding of antibiotic resistant
bacteria in factory farms due to routine feeding of antibiotics
to livestock
Response by entire European Economic
Community to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: Ban
Response by American meat and
pharmaceutical industries to routine feeding of antibiotics to
livestock: Full and complete support
Only man to win Ironman Triathlon more
than twice: Dave Scott (6 time winner)
Food choices of Dave Scott: Vegetarian
World record holder for 24 triathlon
(Swim 4.8 miles, Cycle 185 miles, Run 52.5): Sixto Linares
Food choices of Sixto Linares: Strict
vegetarian
Athlete who most totally dominated
Olympic sport in track and field history: Edwin Moses (undefeated
in 8 years, 400 meter hurdles)
Food choices of Edwin Moses: Vegetarian
Other notable vegetarian athletes:
* Stan Price (World record-bench press)
* Robert Sweetgall (World's premier
ultra-distance walker)
* Paavo Nurmi (20 World's records in
distance running, 9 Olympic medals)
* Bill Pickering (World record -
swimming English Channel)
* Murray Rose (World records - 400 and
1500 meter freestyles)
* Andreas Cahling (Winner - Mr.
International body-building championships)
* Roy Hilligan (Winner - Mr. America
body-building championships)
* Pierro Verot (World's record for
downhill endurance skiing)
* Estelle Gray and Cheryl Marek (World's
record for cross-country tandem cycling)
* James and Johnathon deDonato (World's
record for distance butterfly stroke swimming)
* Ridgely Abele (Winner of 8 national
championships in Karate, including U.S. Karate Association World
Championships)
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