Following notes and graphics should help you follow the talk. 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 ...