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1 Billion Obese
Obese
The average American eats more then 2,400 animals in a lifetime.
(2,287 chickens, 92 turkeys, 31 pigs, and 12 steers & calves)
Conversion inefficiency of meat production:
16 pounds of grain used to produce 1 pound of beef.
RESOURCES: Ingrid Newkirk An Interview With Kids Can Save the Animals (VegetarianTeen.com) Food Revolution, John Robbins, 2001.(p.293)