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Fact City 19: MEAT-EATING HABIT WASTES OUR RESOURCES (Repost) - 2005/06/08 03:26
Fact City 19
Eating Meat Wastes Our Resources
When it comes to resource and energy wastage, meat products are a class by themselves.
Scientists compute the energy costs of foods by the value of the raw materials consumed in the production of that food. Frances Moore Lappe reports: Interior and Commerce produced startling figures showing that the value of raw materials consumed to produce food from livestock is greater than the value of all oil, gas, and coal consumed in this country.
The same study revealed the equally startling fact that the production of meats, dairy products and eggs accounts for one-third of the total amount of all raw materials used for all purposes in the United States.
In contrast, growing grains, vegetables and fruits for direct human consumprion is a model of efficiency, using less than 5% the raw material consumption as does the production of meat.
Another way scientists compute the energy costs of various foods is to assess the amount of fossil fuel needed to produce them. An American scientist, David Pimental, calculates that if the whole world were to eat according to wasteful U.S. agricultural practices, the planet`s entire petroleum reserves would be exhausted in 13 years. Technical paper 47, Vivian Spencer, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Mines, pg 3 - Lappe, F.M., "Diet For A Small Planet" Ballantine Books, New York, 1982, Tenth Anniversary Edition - Reid, J.T., "Comparative Efficiency of Animals in the Conversion of Feedstuffs to Human Foods" Confinement, April 1976, pg. 23 - Hur, Robin and Fields, David; "How Meat Robs America of its Energy," Vegetarian Times, April 1985 - Robbins, John, "Diet For A New America" Stillpoint Publishing, Walpole, N.H., 1987
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