Here is some interesting Vegetarian facts that you should know:
About 7 billion farm animals die or are killed to make food each year
Spinach grown on an acre of land can yeild 26 times more protein than beef produced on the same acre
For each quarter-pound fast food hamburger sold that came from cattle raised on former rainforest land, 55 square feet of rainforest was destroyed
A lot more water is required in animal agriculture than in plant agriculture. It takes only about 25 gallons of water to produce a pound of wheat and around 390 gallons to produce just one pound of beef. In fact, It takes less water to produce the food that a pure vegetarian needs for one year than to produce the food that a meat eater needs for a month
60 million people will starve to death this year - 60 million people could be adequately fed by the grain saved if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10 percent
Diet now followed by the original actor who played Ronald McDonald in McDonald's child-oriented commercials: Vegetarian
Meat/Dairy centered diets are linked to many types of cancer, as well as heart ailments, diabetes, obesity, gallbladder disease, hypertension, and more deadly diseases and disorders
The National Cancer Research Institute found that women who eat meat on a daily basis are almost 4 times more likely to get breast cancer than those women who eat little or no meat
About 30% of all pork products are contaminated with toxoplasmosis, a disease which is caused by parasites. It can be passed on to consumers
On a meatless diet, you are less likely to get a bacterial infection such as E. coli, Camphylobacter, and Salmonella
