We spend more feeding the animals we eat, than feeding the starving people of the world. We grow far more food to feed farm animals than we eat ourselves. Farm animals consume 80% of our corn, 80% of our grain and 95% of our oats. 87% of agricultural land is used to raise the animals we eat. To date in the USA alone, over 260 million acres of forest have been destroyed to raise meat. Worldwide one acre is gone every eight seconds. Half the fresh water in the West is used to grow crops to feed farm animals. Pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and nitrate fertilizers pollute our fresh water. Fertilizers cause algae growth in rivers, which kills all water life, and ultimately the collapse of the ecosystem. In the USA half of the fresh water wells are contaminated by agriculture. It takes 12,000 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef. It takes 60 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of potatoes. The average Westerner uses 106 gallons of water a day. If they eat one burger, this rises to 3,106 per day. If you quit eating meat you will save one million gallons of water every year. We are likely to witness the collapse of our marine ecosystems within 40 years. More fish are taken than can reproduce. Farm animals eat more fish than we do. Half the fish caught are used to feed the livestock we eat. 12 lbs of corn can produce 54 bowls of cornflakes. 12 lbs of wheat can produce 12 loaves of bread. 12 lbs of grain produces 1 lb of beef = 4 burgers. It takes 1/6 acre to feed yourself with grain; you need 12 times that much to feed cows. A USDA meat inspector said, "We used to trim the shit off of meat. Then we washed the shit off of meat. Now the consumer eats the shit off of meat." Animal feces pollute half our fresh water. Farm animals produce 130 times more waste than people do. Farms aren't required to have sewage systems. There is shit on your food, the toilet is cleaner than your meat. The new solution to this? Watch out for irradiated food coming soon! In the USA food is already nuked to kill bacteria, as it is not an ingredient there is no mention of it on the package. Farm animals are neither happy nor healthy. They are tortured, disease ridden drugged up, cancer carrying shadows of the animals our grandparents ate. Farm animals live a fraction of their potential life span. Pigs are confined to pens that cripple them. They can't even walk to the slaughterhouse. 80% of pigs have pneumonia.