Health Presentation on Beef

7/29/2019 Health Presentation on Beef

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Mokani AY Program

22/06/13

HEALTH


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The Makers Diet

Read :Genesis

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What Does it Takes to Have

Meat on Your Plate?


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Fact #1 There are more than 17

billion livestock in the worldthats about triple thenumber of people

Raising these animals

require huge amounts ofwater, e.g. According to theWater EducationFoundation, it takes 2,464gallons of water toproduce one pound ofbeefin California.

This is the same amount ofwater you would use if youtook a seven-minute showerevery day for six entire

months. In contrast, only 25allons of water are


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Fact #2 According to the Rainforest

Action Network, 55 squarefeet of tropical rainforestare destroyed to makeevery fast-food

hamburgermade fromrainforest cattle. This is anarea about the size of asmall kitchen and it is goneforever each time one ofthese hamburgers is eaten.

Not only is the rainforestgone, but 30 differentplant species, 100different insect species

and dozens of bird,mammal and re tile


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Fact # 3 To keep costs down,

livestock are raised infeedlots and factoryfarms where thousands

or tens of thousands ofanimals are crowdedinto small spaces.

Livestock in the U.S.produce 2.7 trillionpounds of manureeach year.Thats aboutten times more wastethan was produced by

all the Americaneo le.


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Fact # 4 Waste from factory

farms gives off manyharmful gases such asammonia, methane and

hydrogen sulfide, as wellas clouds of dust andparticles, which polluteour air

In the U.S., animal farmsare responsible for73%of the ammoniareleased into the air. Theammonia can react with

other gases in the air andcause res irator


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Fact # 5

Burning fossil fuelscontributes to global

warming. And raising

animals for food is the

driving force.

"Livestock are

responsible for18 per

cent of the greenhouse

gases that cause globalwarming, more than

cars, planes and all other

forms of transport put

together."


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Fact #6

To make beef, 6months

old calves are torn away

from their mothers and

put into feedlots.

Several thousand heads

are crammed into the

facility, where cattle

spend days standingcheek to jowl, in mud

and manure.


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Fact #7 To get cattle to balloon in a

span of months, ranchers

stuff the feedlot cattle with a

high-fat (and cheap) corn

diet and administer growthhormones for an additional

boost..

Until recently, cattle also

ate protein supplementsmade from ground-up

chicken parts, "poultry litter"

(feces and other debris

swept off the chicken

factory floor, including


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Fact #8

Cows walking up the

slaughterhouse line

are often killed witha blow to the head,

which can spew bits of

brain into the muscle.


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