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BEYOND BEEF
Is beef still an essential part ofour diet? Or is growing awarenessof the hidden environmental andhealth costs of beef consumptionleading more and more Americansbeyond beef? To help you understandthis important new trend,we have prepared this briefing kit offacts about rainforest destruction,resource depletion, global warming,world hunger, human disease,animal suffering and othercompelling reasons why moreAmericans are eating less beef.
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Most people know that beef consumption plays a major role in the development of heart disease, strokes, and cancer. But the over-consumption of beef is also a major cause of human hunger and poverty, deforestation. spreading deserts, water pollution, water scarcity, global warming, species extinction, and animal suffering. We in the United States are a big part or the problem. Americans consume almost a quarter of all the beef produced in the world. Every 24 hours 100,000 cattle are slaughtered in the United States; the average American consumes the meat of seven 1,100- pound animals in his or her lifetime.
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