www.centerforfoodsafety.org provides a ready-to-send electronic form letter you can send to your elected officials and the FDA concerning food safety with the click of a button.
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In praise of a vegetarian diet, or at least cutting back on meat consumption. According to an article in E: The Environmental Magazine entitled "The Meat of the Matter"
- "If all the grain currently used to feed livestock in the US was consumed directly by people, the number who could be fed is nearly 800 million."
- "The methane that cattle and their manure produce has a global warming effect equal to that of 33 million automobiles," the Center for Science in the Public Interest reports in its book Six Arguments for a Greener Diet.
- Raising livestock for human consumption occupies 26% of the ice- and water-free surface of the planet, and the area devoted to feed these animals amounts to 33% of arable land.
- Livestock production consumes 8% of the world's water, causes 55% of land erosion and sediment, uses 37% of all pesticides, directly or indirectly results in 50% of all antibiotic use, and dumps a third of all nitrogen and phosphorous into our fresh water supplies.
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