My favorite is it takes 2400 gallons of water, 12 pounds of grain, 35 pounds of topsoil to produce one - that is one pound of meat.
Someone sent this to our local paper. I wrote back that given all the cattle on feed, the numbers slaughtered, and the amount of grain produced, all numbers available from the USDA, the writer's numbers did not add up as we were consuming more grain than we produced, not allowing for exports. I noted that the water numbers likely included grain and grass production and that if we pulled cattle off pasture soil water retention would certainly fall creating massive fields of dead slowly decaying material that would adversely affect everything.
There was a letter today fretting over the release of carbon into the atmosphere via the burning of fossil fuels where "the carbon will remain forever." Seemingly the carbon cycle wasn't taught at this guy's school or he was absent that day. Furthermore, where does he think all the carbon in fossil fuels came from? Could it be the Earth's original atmosphere that was largely carbon and uninhabitable?
This is what happens when schools do not teach chemistry, physics, or economics, when emotion and sentiment override reason and logic, when anthropomorphization takes hold and animals are thought to be equal to humans, when it is conceivable that an abused animal can be a productive animal, when it is believed that your property is their property.
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