Meat the Facts

Livestock produce 40% more greenhouse gas emissions than global transportation.

The Amazon Forest releases 20 Billion tons of fresh water into the atmosphere every day.

24 Hours of deforestation releases as much CO2 as 8 million people flying from London to New York.

Every second, a section of rain forest the size of a football field is destroyed to produce 257 hamburgers.

More than 90% of the Amazon Forest cleared since 1970 is used for livestock pasture.

16 pounds of grain is needed to produce 1 pound of beef.

Factory-farm cows never die of hunger, yet a child dies of hunger every 2.3 seconds.

1.2 billion people suffer from hunger, and another 1.2 billion are obese.

Every year, 760 million tons of grain is fed to livestock. It could solve the global food shortage 14 times over!

Grain fed to livestock loses 90% of its energy by the time it’s consumed as meat.

1 hectare of land produces potatoes for 22 people. 
1 hectare of land produces rice for 19 people.

1 hectare of land produces lamb for 2 people.

1 hectare of land produces beef for 1 person.

1.1 billion people live without safe clean drinking water – that’s 1 in 6 of us.

19,737 liters of water are needed to produce 1 pound of beef.  This is enough water to take a 7-minute shower every day for an entire year.

Livestock in the U.S. produces 86,000 pounds of excrement per second – that’s 130 times more than the entire human population.

If the future of the world depended on me, what would I do?

You have the power to stop this now! It’s on your plate.

Go Green! Be Veg.