Questions and Answers About Vegetarianism

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"Nothing will benefit health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." - Albert Einstein

"The question is not, can they reason?, Nor, can they talk?, But can they suffer?" - Jeremy Bentham

Amount of water needed to produce 1 pound of wheat: 25 gallons
Amount of water needed to produce 1 pound of beef: 2,500 gallons

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The Wall Street Journal reports that US livestock eat enough grain and soybeans to feed over 5 times the number of people in the US. How can this be? It is because cows consume a great deal of food. It takes up to sixteen pounds of grain or soybeans to produce just one pound of feedlot beef. Eighty percent of the corn the US grows, and over 95% of the oats, are fed to livestock, not humans The University of California estimates that a healthy acre of prime land can grow 40,000 pounds of potatoes, or it can produce 250 pounds of beef. Other studies say that it can take 500 times more land to make a pound of beef than a pound of vegetables. In a world where a child dies of malnutrition every 3 seconds, this is a tragic way to use our land.


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American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
Farm Sanctuary
Humane Society of the United States



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At the EcoMall, while we don't believe you have to be a vegetarian to be an environmentalist, we do believe the two are related - - both encompass the ideals of efficiency and preserving our natural resources. Apart from the crucial considerations of health and natural goodness, and respect for animal life, meat eating is both inefficient and wasteful. Many pounds of cereal must be fed to livestock to produce one pound of meat on the table; the "wasted" food is used to supply the animal with energy. As protein converters, livestock are inefficient. An acre of cereal will produce five times more protein than an acre devoted to raising animals for human consumption. The figures for legumes - ten times more - and leafy vegetables - fifteen times - are even more startling. Some individual vegetables are yet more efficient. According to Gary Null, "The ideal of eating simply so that everyone may eat, often leads people to an animal-free diet. The logic? Land is capable of supplying food for nearly fourteen times as many people when it is used to grow food for people rather than crops to feed livestock. Cows, for instance, consume approximately sixteen pounds of grain to yield just one pound of flesh! In contrast, it has been estimated that our current yield of plant foods could nourish more than double the world's population, perhaps even turning the world hunger problem around, if meat-consuming societies would curtail their meat demand and free grazing land for the more efficient purpose of growing food crops." We hope that our Eco Restaurants directory will help people all around the country explore the delicious tastes and textures of vegetarian cuisine and appreciate the many benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle!

Got Milk?  
A peer-reviewed medical study, in the International Journal of Health Services, suggests that the genetically engineered bovine growth hormone, rBGH, commonly administered to dairy cows to boost milk production, may promote cancer of the breast and colon. This product has been in widespread use on dairy farms in the U.S., and consumers have been drinking milk from these cows - largely unknowingly - for several years. In addition to the cancer risk, injecting rBGH reduces a cows life expectancy and increases her risk of disease, leading to increased use of anti-biotic injections, thus leaving residues of these drugs in the milk. The milk produced by the sick cows is less healthful because mastisis results in increased secretion of white blood cells, or 'pus', into the milk.

"According to a recent survey, 60 percent of Americans are interested in buying organic products, which in their eyes are better for the environment and also healthier because they are not made with synthetic substances."
- New York Times


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