Why be a vegetarian?
Friday, April 25th, 2008I haven’t been able to find the source of this list of reasons why go vegetarian. I see it all over the web, but I think it’s very well said and it’s worth spreading the word. If anyone knows where it’s from, please let me know so I could link back to the original site.
ONE HUNDRED & ONE REASONS TO GO VEGETARIAN
PEOPLE
Every year in the UK we feed our livestock enough food to feed 250,000,000 people while in the world 30,000,000 people die of starvation
20 vegetarians can live off the land required by one meat eater
Every 3 seconds a child dies of starvation somewhere in the world
If Americans reduced their meat consumption by 10% it would free 12,000,000 tons of grain - enough to feed 60,000,000 people (the population of Great Britain) (more…)