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Ten Facts

1. One ham sandwich has a carbon footprint of 14 to 34 grams of CO2.

2. You save massive amounts of water – 3,000 to 5,000 gallons of water for every pound of beef you don't eat!

3. Eating less meat avoids pollution of our streams and rivers better than any other single recycling effort you do.

4. You avoid making the destruction of topsoil.

5. Destruction of tropical forest is caused by meat production.

6. According to "How Our Food Choices can Help Save the Environment" by Steve Boyan, a PhD in Political Sciences- An average car produces 3 kg/day of CO2 and the production of one hamburger produces 75 kg of CO2.

7. Also according to "How Our Food Choices can Help Save the Environment" by Steve Boyan, a PhD in Political Sciences- Eating one pound of hamburger does the same damage as driving your car for more than three weeks.

8.You reduce the amount of methane gas produced.

9. You also reduce the destruction of wildlife habitat, and
help to save endangered species.

10. According to “Diet, Energy, and Global Warming,” by Gidon Eshel and Pamela A. Martin of the University of Chicago, if you reduce your meat consumption by only 6 meatless days a month the energy saved will be equivalent to that saved when you switch from driving a sedan car to a hybrid vehicle!!!

 

SHOW THESE TO YOUR PARENTS!!!