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 Posted - 04/05/2002 : 20:31:05  
A few fast facts
56,000 animals killed in Canada per hour for meat (about 491 million annually).
73,314,405 animals killed in British Columbia per year for meat.
Human population has doubled since WWII, while livestock has quadrupled.
3:1 - livestock outnumbers human population.
Since WWII, the number of farms in Canada has decreased by 60%, but their size has increased by 290%.
322,000,000 litres of livestock manure is produced every day in Canada (85% cattle).
3000 tons of manure is produced weekly by a typical hog factory.
25% of solid waste from British Columbia's Lower Mainland slaughterhouses fed back to animals.
33% of all antibiotics used in Canada are fed to livestock.
Staphylococci infections have become 7x more resistant to penicillin between 1960 and 1988 due to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock.
It takes an average of 7.5 pounds of grain and soy to produce one pound of food from livestock.
90 - 100% of protein, fibre and carbohydrates are lost by cycling grain and soy through livestock.
We will be happy to supply references if requested.
http://www.earthsave.bc.ca/index.html
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