Health Cost

Worldwide

Heart Disease: 1 trillion (US $/year)

Diabetes: 174 billion (US $/year)

United States

Colon Caner: 6.5 billion (US $/year)

Obesity: 93 billion (US $/year)

Total: 120-150 billion (US $/year)

RESOURCES:
United States Leads World Meat Stampede
(World Watch Institute)
Report Targets Costs Of Factory Farming
(Washington Post)
Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America(PDF)

Mad Cow Diease

• Heart Disease

• Diabetes

• Obesity

• Colon Cancer

• Blue Tongue Disease

• E Coli

• Salmonella

• Bird Flu

• Mad Cow Disease

• Pig’s Disease (PMWS)

• Listeriosis (most deadly, and on the rise)

• Shellfsh Poisoning

• Pre-eclampsia (complications in pregnancy)

• Most viruses have zoonotic origin

and more…

RESOURCES:
Various Shellfish-Associated Toxins
(US Food and Drug Administration)
Farming: Notifiable diseases
Zoonoses: Diseases
(Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs)
Meat, Pre-eclamsia, Campylobacter
(Wikipedia)
Listeria poisoning almost double
(Independent)

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)