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5.0 out of 5 stars
Essentail reading for meat and fish eaters, 3 Aug 2006
101 reasons
This is an extraordinary and extremely disturbing book. For anyone who cares about the welfare of animals, the environment, health issues and indeed the survival of our planet, I would say Pamela Rice's reasons are incontestable. She has set out to prove, by exhaustive research, that the voracious meat and fish-eating habits of, primarily the western world, particularly America, is the cause of animal cruelty in the extreme, disastrous over-fishing of rivers and oceans, land and river polution and ill-health on a scale never before experienced. The sections on the treatment of factory-farmed animals are horrific.
I was also very impressed by the sections on water and world hunger, for instance, most informed people know that in the future we are going to be facing catastrophic shortages of water, the commodity most essential to human survival - yet `it takes nearly 8,500 gallons of water to produce just one pound of beef'' (a pound of tomatoes takes about 34 gallons). Meat-eaters are devouring the world's water at an alarming rate. To feed their habit, 37 percent of the world's cultivated grain is fed to animals destined for human consumption - a meat-eater, by extension, requires two to four times more farmland than a vegetarian. And, `In a tragic irony, there is roughly a direct correlation between the amount of grain needed to eradicate world hunger and the amount of grain fed to U.S. livestock alone.
The facts are irrefutable, but in order to present them in an eye-catching way, (101 reasons) Pamela is repetitive here and there,. However, I didn't mind being told more than once. I think the portrait on the front cover serves no useful purpose and, sadly, believe that the word `vegetarian' might prove an instant put-off to the people who should be reading a book of such scope and significance.
Thank you Pamela, I would recommend your book to anyone with a conscience.
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