In this weekly series we have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including: animal rights , better health, food safety ,frugal living, global food crisis and the immense contribution of meat production to climate change, resource depletion and public health PDF .
The industrial agricultural system, now the predominant form of agriculture in the USA and increasingly world-wide, has consequences for public health owing to its extensive use of fertilisers and pesticides, unsustainable use of resources and environmental pollution.
High-income nations feed over 60% of grain to livestock compared with low-income countries , where people consume most grain directly 2,13
1000 tons of water needed to grow 1 ton of grain for feed43.
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