It takes 23 gallons of water to produce a
pound of tomatoes.
It takes 5,214 gallons of water to produce a
pound of beef.
One acre of land can produce 20,000
pounds of potatoes.
One acre of land can produce 165 pounds of beef.
It takes 1 pound of grain to make 1 pound
of bread.
It takes 20 pounds of grain to make 1 pound of beef.
75% of the grain sent to third world
nations goes to livestock production.
The U.S. cattle industry produces 158
million tons of waste per year.
Livestock production is the #1 cause of
water pollution in the U.S.
22 million acres of land have become
unusable due to desertification.
85% of the topsoil loss in the U.S. is
the result of livestock production.
In the U.S., 33% of ALL raw material
consumption is used solely in the production of meat, egg, and dairy
products.
The countries with the diets highest in
animal products are also the countries with the highest rates of cancer,
heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc.
50% of men who eat meat regularly die of
heart disease.
80% of USDA chicken inspectors no longer
eat chicken.
U.S. tuna fisherman are permitted to kill
over 20,000 dolphins every year.
2 million sharks die in driftnets in the
north pacific every year.
In the past 20 years approximately 1 million species have
disappeared from the world's tropical forests.
From 1960-1985 over 40% of the central
American rainforests were destroyed to create grazing land for cattle.
The united states imports over 100,000
tons of beef from central America each year.
Only 1 in 10 baby chimpanzees survive the
trip form the jungle to the zoo.
1 billion animals are killed each year in
experiments.
17 million animals are trapped in the
U.S. each year for fur. Many traps are so painful that animals chew
through their own limbs to escape.
For every fur animal trapped, two other
animals (dogs, cats, deer, etc.) are trapped and killed.
In 1997 450,000 minks died on fur farms
from heat exhaustion.
1 ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees,
7,000 gallons of water, and enough energy to heat the average home for 6
months.
Enough wood and paper is thrown away each
year in America to heat 1 billion houses for a year.
Six times more jobs are created by
recycling as opposed to landfill operations.
Out of every $10 that Americans spend on
food, $1 pays for packaging.
65% of garbage in the U.S. is packaging.
50% of all trash thrown away could be
recycled into new products.
500 new dumps are built each year in the
united states.
Over 1 billion trees are used to make
disposable diapers every year.
Americans throw away 20 billion
disposable diapers each year.
Americans dump the equivalent of 21
million shopping bags full of food into landfills every year.
Over 700,000 tons of hazardous waste is
produced in the U.S. every day.
Americans throw away 10 million cigarette
lighters every week.
Nearly 500,000 people die of cigarette
related diseases in the U.S. each year.
Smoking-related diseases cost the United
States more than $150 billion a year.
Pesticides that are banned in the U.S.
(such as DDT) are regularly sold to third world countries.
90% of all food borne pesticides are
found in meat and dairy products.
90% of nursing mothers who were meat
eaters had DDT in their breast milk. 10% of nursing mothers who were
vegetarian had DDT in their breast
milk.
In 1945, before widespread pesticide use,
U.S. corn growers lost 3% of their crops to insects. In 1994, they lost
over 12%.
74 different kinds of pesticides have
been found in drinking water.
Over 100 chemical contaminants have been
found in the breast milk of nursing mothers in the U.S. of the 34
chemicals most widely used on lawns, 25% are widely believed to cause
birth defects, genetic mutation, and cancer.
Americans spend 6 billion dollars on
their lawns each year.
As of 1995, 25% of U.S. nuclear reactors
would not be able to contain a core breach meltdown.
A 1985 study predicted a 45% chance of
core breach meltdown in the U.S. before 2005.
In 1992, 430,000 people in the world died
from cancers resulting from nuclear testing radiation.
More money is spent in the U.S. on
nuclear weaponry in one year than was spent on housing from 1980-1992.
To date cleaning up storage facilities
for nuclear debris has cost taxpayers 200 billion dollars.
In 1989 the U.S. military used 200
billion barrels of oil, enough to keep all American public transit
systems running for 22 years.
1 ton of toxic waste is produced by the
U.S. every minute.
Editor's Note:
Special thanks to singer/songwriter,
musician, and activist, Moby for
organizing this collection of information. This list, which is titled,
"Facts that I've Collected," is published in the
insert of his 1995 album, "Everything is Wrong."
Although this information was published
in 1995, it is highly likely that a staggering majority of this data is
still accurate. Recognizing as of 2007, that little (if
any in most cases) has been done to alleviate these issues.. the likely difference in
these statistics is that it is worse, and will continue to worsen until
significant changes occur.
If you're dubious of any of the
information listed above, we encourage you to do some fact finding for
yourself. Let us know what you've discovered through your
investigations!
We do not have answers to each and every
complicated, social and economic problem. For the most part...
here is perhaps some of the best answers to effectively tackle these
issues:
1. Go Vegan (Stop eating animal flesh,
animal secretions - also known as 'Dairy', and stop wearing animal skin
and fur trim.)
2. Don't support animal cruelty (i.e..
entertainment, sport, lab testing.)
3. Recycle, Reduce, Reuse
4. Don't smoke (obviously).
5. Share your information with with
others - Tell everyone the truth!
