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***Some Facts to Ponder***
One of the main reasons we are so dependent on the resources of the third world is our artificially crafted addiction to meat (and petroleum.) 20 lbs of grain go into making 1 lb of beef = not enough soil resources here to sustain the meat habit. (and the same inefficiency goes into poultry as well - KFC is known for rainforest destruction for the cultivation of chicken feedstock.)
So how do they make a profit off of such an incredibly inefficient product?
Step one - the CIA. It's no secret that the CIA's main objective is to "maintain our access to our necessary resources." Or more accurately, extremely cheap resources. The CIA does this by keeping large, resource-full regions in third world squalor. It does this by aiding feudal cartel regimes. In feudal/cartel systems, such as in any Central or South American third world country today, those with the most guns own the land, and therefore own the resources. (Human and Natural Resources.) And guns are something we can supply quite easily, so it's not a very hard job to keep the right bloodthirsty cartels in power, to keep the extremely cheap resources flowing to us. That's why we're so Anti-Communism, 'cause communism = nationalized resources.
Step two - Steal taxpayer money. Major subsidies go to the meat and dairy industries.
Step three - Make people grossly unhealthy. Methinks this is the real reason they spend sooo much effort just to try and get such an inefficient, and unnecessary product to the consumer. Look at the average person's meal - meat is the mainstay, and veggies are supplemental, when it should be the other way around. Plus our veggies should NOT BE COOKED. We are omnivores, not carnivores. This means that we only have the ability to digest meat because of a secondary process. This process necessitates the consumption of huge amounts of raw microbiotics. The little living things in the raw plant foods help us digest the meat. Think about it - think back to early man. Meat was a survival food. It was the reason we were able to travel out of the jungle. But it was a supplement to a huge amount of other foods, ALL OF WHICH WERE RAW. Nowadays we just go ahead and eat meat three times a day, with absolutely no raw foods, and expect somehow to magically digest it. Well we don't. It sits and rots in our digestive tract, giving us an acidic pH balance. Ever heard of the 60 pounds of shit that was in John Wayne's lower intestine when he died? That's why. This is compounded by the fact that for some reason people find it normal to drink soda. Soda has the same pH as vinegar. It is a cleaning agent. It FUCKS UP YOUR pH.
Step four - Make money off of people being grossly unhealthy. An unhealthy pH balance means a dysfunctional immune system. It's well known now that small amounts of cancerous cells pop up in every healthy person's body normally, all the time, and that it's a normal function of the immune system to find and kill them. So to get cancer really just means that your immune system was unable to perform this function. And what are the two biggest money makers for the health care industry? Cancer and Heart Disease! (I didn't think it needed mentioning that heart disease is a direct result of a high-meat high-fat high-sugar diet.)
Step five - Steal more money from taxpayers. So we now know that health care and pharmaceutical system would be a scam even if they didn't get taxpayer subsidy, but, uh, they get that too...
So they steal your tax money four times here - once for the CIA, again to make the weapons the CIA provides, then to the Meat/Dairy industries, then to big Pharma/Health care.
Then they take your money AGAIN, fuck you up, and fuck up Mother Earth."
* in the past 20 years approximately 1 million species have disappeared from the world's tropical forests.
* from 1960-1985 over 40% of the Central American rainforests were destroyed to create grazing land for cattle.
* the United States imports over 100,000 tons of beef from Central America each year.
* it takes 23 gallons of water to produce a pound of tomatoes, it takes 5,214 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef.
* one acre of land can produce 20,000 pounds of potatoes. one acre of land can produce 165 pounds of beef.
* the U.S. cattle industry produces 158 million tons of waste per year.
* livestock production is the #1 cause of water pollution in the U.S.
* 22 million acres of land have become unusable due to desertification.
* 85% of the topsoil loss in the U.S. is the result of livestock production.
* in the U.S. 33% of ALL raw material consumption is used solely in the production of meat, egg, and dairy products.
* it takes 1 pound of grain to make 1 pound of bread.
* it takes 20 pounds of grain to make 1 pound of beef.
* 75% of the grain sent to 3rd world nations goes to livestock production.
* the countries with the highest in animal products are also the countries with the highest rates of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc. 50 percent of men who eat meat regularly die of heart disease.
* 4 percent of men who eat no animal products die of heart disease.
* 80% of USDA chicken inspectors no longer eat chicken.
* if the average commuter passenger load in the U.S. were increased by just 1 person per day we would save 33 million gallons of gas each day. Americans spend over 1 billion hours stuck in traffic each year.
* 30% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from cars.
* air is sold in Mexico city for $1.15 a minute by sidewalk vendors.
* what Greenpeace spends in a year general motors spends in 4 hours.
* 3.5 million children under the age of 6 suffer from lead poisoning.
* in Europe 50% of the cars still use leaded gas.
* 2 million gallons of motor oil are dumped in American waterways each year.
* over 8 million tons of oil are spilled into the world's oceans every year.
* 5 billion gallons of water are flushed each day in the united states
* sewage treatment facilities in the U.S. discharge 5.9 trillion gallons of sewage wastewater into coastal waters every year.
* U.S. tuna fishermen are permitted to kill over 20,000 dolphins every year.
* 2 million sharks die in driftnets in the north pacific every year.
* only 1 in 10 baby chimpanzees survive the trip from the jungle to the zoo.
* 1 billion animals are killed each year in experiments.
* 17 million animals are trapped in the U.S. each year for fur.
* many traps are so painful that animals chew through their own limbs to escape.
* for every fur animal trapped two other animals (dogs, cats, deer, etc.) are trapped and killed.
* in 1987 450,000 minks died on fur farms from heat exhaustion. 1 ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water, & enough energy to heat the average home for 6 months.
* six times more jobs are created by recycling as opposed to landfill operations.
* the amount of money spent on trash disposal in American schools is equal to that spent on new textbooks.
* out of every $10 that Americans spend on food, $1 pays for packaging.
* 65% of garbage in the U.S. is packaging.
* 50% of all trash thrown away could be recycled into new products.
* 500 new dumps are built each year in the united states.
* over 1 billion trees are used to make disposable diapers every year.
* Americans throw away 20 billion disposable diapers each year.
* Americans dump the equivalent of 21 million shopping bags full of food into landfills every year.
* 2.5 billion batteries are thrown away each year by Americans.
* over 700,000 tons of hazardous waste is produced in the U.S. every day.
* Americans throw away 10 million cigarette lighters every week.
* 500,000 people die of cigarette related diseases in the U.S. each year.
* pesticides that are banned in the U.S. (such as ddt) are regularly sold to third world countries.
* 90% of all food borne pesticides are found in meat and dairy products.
* 10% of nursing mothers who were vegetarians had ddt in their breast milk.
* 90% of nursing mothers who were meat eaters had ddt in their breast milk.
* in 1945, before widespread pesticides were use, U.S. corn growers lost 3% of their crops to insects, last year they lost over 12%.
* 74 different kinds of pesticides have been found in drinking water.
* over 100 chemical contaminants have been found in the breast milk of nursing mothers in the U.S.
* of the 34 chemicals most widely used on lawns, 25% are widely believed to cause birth defects, genetic mutation, and cancer.
* Americans spend 6 billion dollars on their lawns each year.
* 25% of U.S. nuclear reactors would not be able to contain a core breach meltdown.
* a 1985 study predicted a 45% chance of core breach meltdown in the U.S. before 2005. in 1992, 430,000 people in the world died from cancers resulting from nuclear testing radiation.
* more money is spent in the U.S. on nuclear weaponry in one year than was spent on housing from 1980-1992.
* to date, cleaning up storage facilities for nuclear debris has cost taxpayers 200 billion dollars.
* in 1989 the U.S. military used 200 billion barrels of oil, enough to keep all American public transit systems running for 22 years.
* 1 ton of toxic waste is produced by the U.S. military every minute.
http://www.marxmail.org/facts/moby.htmjust in case you forgot to open up those eyes.....always good to refresh your drive to do something. almost at 5 bucks and everyone around me is getting cancer.
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