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4 regs:

1. gambling -x- truthfulness

2. intoxication -x- austerity

3. loose sex -x- cleanliness

4. meat eating -x- compassion
Meat & Oil

· Like oil, meat is subsidized by the federal government.

· Like oil, meat is subject to accelerating demand as nations become wealthier, and this, in turn, sends prices higher.
Facts:

Demand for meat has multiplied!

· 1961 = 71 million tons

· 2007 = 284 million tons

· 2050 = 560 million tons

· US: 5% of world’s population = 16% of world’s meat consumption = 10 billion animals a year

Assembly-line meat factories

· consume enormous amounts of energy

· pollute water supplies
-three-quarters of all water-quality problems in the nation’s rivers and streams

· generate significant greenhouse gases
-fifth of the world’s greenhouse gases — more than transportation
- 2.2 pounds of beef is responsible for the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the average European car every 155 miles

· require ever-increasing amounts of corn, soy and other grains…

· …a dependency that has led to the destruction of vast swaths of the world’s tropical rain forests.
-30 percent of the earth’s ice-free land is directly or indirectly involved in livestock production

Though some 800 million people on the planet now suffer from hunger or malnutrition, the majority of corn and soy grown in the world feeds cattle, pigs and chickens.

Five times more grain is required to produce the same amount of calories through livestock as through grain consumption. (10x more in US)

Cattle are meant to digest grass, not grain. = Grain makes them gain weight quickly. = This is great for industrial cattle raising. = Cattle gets sick and treated with antibiotics. = Antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

animals in farm factories are tortured = bad karma = war/calamities

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