Think about it...

-35% of the world's grain and 70% of the United States' grain are fed to livestock
-Some developing nations grow and export grains to feed livestock in Western nations while their own citizens are starving
-Every steak has the same global warming effect as a 25-mile drive in a typical American car
-Livestock production is the largest polluter of water in the United States, topping all other industries that produce toxic wastes
-Cattle ranching has destroyed more rain forest than any other activity in Central America
-Most Americans eat 4 to 6 times the amount of protein required for good health. This extra protein is wasted and can cause disease.

"When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans who have the highest rate of heart disease in the world...we can say easily that business is no longer developing the world. We have become its predator." - Paul Hawken
Author of The Ecology of Commerce