Cost to the Environment of Meat Eating

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The following was forwarded to Action for Animals Network.
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Oregon ranchers drained the rivers dry..
where once was a rushing river they left
a muddy bed
and left fish gasping as they suffocated
to death..

Each egg is 120 gallons of water in production.
Each lb. of beef is many times that.
Every lb. of beef represents 21 lbs. of
food the animal ate.. the poor creature after
drinking gallons of water daily for several
years.. is butchered

In addition, the beef industry destroys the
raincycle by cutting down trees necessary
in the evaporation, mist, cloud rain cycle.

The beef industry fills the waters of the world
with ecoli (colon bacteria) as massive amounts
of cow waste are dumped into our lakes, rivers
and streams.

Slaughterhouses fill rivers with blood
which contains adrenalin, the biochemical
terror of the animal.

Tanneries fill rivers with TCE,
trichloroethylene,
as they turn skin ripped from animals into
shoes.

Pig slaughterhouses in NC, Virginia and
elsewhere http://www.hogwatch.org
create so much waste that red tide, pfiesteria,
is created.

Chicken factory farms, condemned by Senator
Robert Byrd recently, fill the streams of
Arkansas, Maryland, Delaware, Maine, Ohio
and other places with salmonella from chicken
waste.