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A Few Reasons to Go Vegetarian

U.S. Animal Agriculture is responsible for:

LAND USE: 1 billion acres of land. That's 43% of all U.S. land, and 83% of agricultural land.

CROPS: 560 billion pounds of grain a year fed to U.S. livestock, enough to feed 840 million people.

SOIL EROSION: 2 trillion pounds a year.

ENERGY: The equivalent of burning 26 billion gallons of gas a year.

GREENHOUSE GAS: Emissions equivalent to 1 trillion pounds of CO2 a year.

EXCREMENT: 9 billion pounds a year, or as much in 3 days as produced by the U.S. human population in a year.

WATER USE: 35 trillion gallons a year, more than half of all US water use, enough for every American to take 26 showers a day.

WATER POLLUTION: 570,000 miles of U.S. streams and rivers and 6 million acres of U.S. lakes and reservoirs are polluted due to animal agriculture, comprising 15% of all streams, rivers, lakes, and reservoirs.