-- Jon Bon Jovi
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
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- Facts of Life
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- carnivore • diet • food • obese • overweight • Vegetarian Times • vegetarians • Whole Foods









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