Raising cows and eating them hurts the environment.  

• 87% of all agricultural land in the U.S. is used for raising animals for food.

• Cows can see everything in color.

• Animals raised for food produce 130 times more ‘waste’ (poo) than humans… about 87,000 pound per second.

• They can detect a smell from up to 5 miles away.

• 260 million acres of U.S. forest have been cleared to grow crops to feed animals raised for meat

• In their own environment, they can live to be 25 years old.

• Cows have seven stomachs.

• The world’s cattle alone eat the food equal to the caloric needs of 8.7 billion people.

• More than half of all the water used in the U.S. is for all purposes needed to raise animals for food. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of meat.