Meatless Monday
Keri Tucker Kirstie OravecAllie Jones Sarah Swartz
Vegetables!
Shopping
Cook
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The Finished Product
Environmental Benefits
of Meatless Monday
Saving Water1 pound of beef = 1799 gallons of
water
Benefits: No aquifer depletionWater is not being
polluted
No Animal Waste Produced
1 pound of beef = 24 pounds of manure
Benefits: No water pollutionNo air pollution
Less Crops Need to Be GrownLaw of Entropy
Plants to Cow to Human vs. Plants to Human
Benefits: Less land space neededLess pesticides usedLess fertilizer used
Less fossil fuels burned to run the tractors
Less water pollution and dead zonesLess soil deprivation and land erosion
How much meat DO American's eat?*The Average American eats about 8 ounces of meat a day. That is half a pound!
By deciding as a group to abstain from meat for a day, our group of ten people saved five pounds of meat.
Our Meatless Monday saved..
• 5 pounds of meat.
• 8,995 gallons of water.
• 120 pounds of manure was eliminated
• All of this was just because of 10 people not eating meat for one day!
Meatless Monday every week?Suppose 10 people didn't eat meat every Monday
for a year....
o 260 pounds of meat would not be consumed!
o 467,740 gallons of water would be saved!
o 6,240 pounds of manure from animals would be eliminated!
Citations
• http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html?pagewanted=all
• http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/embedded-water/
• http://www.paffa.state.pa.us/paffa2/files/specialrecords/manuretable.pdf
