The Environmental Cost Of Meat

"Strong growth in meat production and consumption continues despite mounting evidence that meat-based diets are unhealthy, and that just about every aspect of meat production—from grazing-related loss of cropland and open space, to the inefficiencies of feeding vast quantities of water and grain to cattle in a hungry world, to pollution from “factory farms”—is an environmental disaster with wide and sometimes catastrophic consequences." "Producing a single hamburger patty uses enough fuel to drive 20 miles and causes the loss of five times its weight in topsoil."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan