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Chew On This

I picked up the Vegetarian Times Complete Cookbook at Whole Foods the other day. I’ve been a little fascinated by the occasional sidebar and thought I’d share some.

In a lifetime, according to the authors of The Animal Rights Handbook, the average meat-eating American will consume 1 calf, 3 lamb, 11 cattle, 23 hogs, 45 turkeys, 1,097chickens, and 15,665 chicken eggs.
Of the 127 million overweight adults in the U.S., 60 million are obese and 9 million are severely obese.
The number of calories from fat in a typical meal from the U.S. government’s school lunch program is a whopping 38%.
Soybeans contain more protein than beef, more calcium than milk, more lecithin than eggs, and more iron than beef.
There are approximately 2.1 million farms in the U.S. Of those, 0.2 % are organic.
Corn is used in more than 800 different processed foods.
About 80% of vegetarians are women.
Vegetarian meals are the most commonly requested special meal on airplanes.
If Americans abandoned their meat-centered diets, 200 million acres could be reforested.
Vegetarians tend to have lower blood pressure than non-vegetarians.

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Published:: 21.06.08 / 11am

Category:: Facts of Life

Social Tags:: carnivore • diet • food • obese • overweight • Vegetarian Times • vegetarians • Whole Foods

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neca 23.06.08 / 9am

I recently began eating a primarily vegan diet. People say “I couldn’t do that - I’d be starving.” What they don’t realize is how much more food they can eat when its fiber and nutrient rich as opposed to calorie “rich.”

btw, I still read your old recipes online for ideas!

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neca 23.06.08 / 10am

I wanted to let you know that I am still enjoying your recipe web site!

J. Lynne 24.06.08 / 2pm

I have some new recipes to post over there. I just need to sit down long enough to do it.

If you’re enjoying vegan cooking, I highly recommend Robin Robertson’s “The Vegetarian’s Meat and Potatoes Cookbook”. I just picked it up last week and I’ve found it full of a lot of good recipes plus she has a whole section on “meat” which is about setein, tvp, tempeh, tofu, and other meat substitutes. I usually don’t cook with some of those because they’re hard to find and I didn’t know what they actually were, but she does a really good job of explaining the basics for newbies as well as discussing how to use them in recipes. I feel much more confident and inspired.

neca 10.07.08 / 10am

oooh - let me know when you post them! Thx!

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