"Costs" of lifestock production

• Nearly 800 million people could be fed by all the grain currently fed to US livestock Professor David Pimental NY 

• 70% of United States grain goes to feeding farm animals USDA 1991  

• It takes almost 3.5 kg of corn and soy to produce just half a kg of pork.  Cattle-Fax 1989 

• More than half of the water used for all purposes in the United States goes to livestock production L. Beckett & J. W. Oltjen J Animal Science 1992;71:818-8268 

• 2000 lit of water is needed to produce ½ kg of meat cmp to 7 lit to produce one pound of wheat Audubon News Jan 2000 

• Every kg of beef that is avoided can save up to 40 000 liters of water * 

• Every second of every day, one “football field” of tropical rainforest is destroyed in order to produce 257 hamburgers*  

* Boyan S How Our Food Choices can Help Save the Environment.

Ps. I'm not trying to push down americans :) This is just the numbers and facts I happened to have.