HUMAN HEALTH: 70 percent of U.S. deaths are related to diet, particularly the over consumption of beef and saturated animal fats. Red meat is directly linked to heart disease, strokes, and cancer of the colon and breast.

WORLD HUNGER: At a time when nearly 1,000,000,000 (one billion) people suffer from chronic hunger, more than one-third of all the grain grown in the world is fed to cattle and other livestock. That's enough to give every child, woman and man a meal a day.

ANIMAL SUFFERING: Each and every day, 100,000 cattle are slaughtered in the U.S. Thousands more are slaughtered in Canada and Mexico. Their deaths are cruel and horrible - shocked with electric prods, beaten and kicked, shot with a stun-gun, hung by their feet, their throats cut.

WAR AGAINST LIFE: As more land is turned over to cattle raising, wild animals are being exterminated. Millions of wild creatures, from coyotes to mountain lions and birds, are killed every year by the government as a "public service" to livestock interests.

One acre of land planted in legumes provides 10 times more available protein than the same acre used for meat production. Endangered wilderness areas in Alberta are also destroyed by cattle grazing and the deforestation of land to create new grazing space. One acre of trees is spared each year by a person on a pure vegetarian diet. Methane is a greenhouse gas. Cattle are one source of this gas.