17. Over 99% of the Animals Killed in the U.S. Each Year Die to be Eaten
18. Pigs in Perpetual Prison “ Real-life ‘Babes’ see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can’t even turn around.” Morley Safer, 60 Minutes , 9/19/97
35. “ By far the most important non-CO2 greenhouse gas is methane, and the number one source of methane worldwide is animal agriculture.” Environmental Protection Agency, 2004, http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/publications/ emissions
36. “ Methane is responsible for nearly as much global warming as all other non-CO2 greenhouse gases put together.” Hansen, James E. and Makiko Sato, “Trends of measured climate forcing agents”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2001, http://www.pnas.org/cgi/ content/full/98/26/14778
37. = David Pimentel (ecologist), 1997, http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Aug97/livestock.hrs.html
38. Amount of Land Needed to Grow a Year’s Supply of Food MEAT-EATER VEGETARIAN VEGAN http://www.PETA2.org
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Any behavior that is outside these norms is considered abnormal.