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Similarly, a study last year by the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science in Japan estimated that 2.2 pounds of beef is responsible for the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the average European car every 155 miles, and burns enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for nearly 20 days. The UN Food and Agricultural Organization lists the following fossil fuel\u2013consuming categories in the animal-foods industry: 1. Feed production. Fossil energy is used for the production of feeds, including land preparation, fertilizers, pesticides, harvesting, drying, and so on.<\/p>\n

It also includes their bulk transport (rail and\/or sea freight), storage, processing, and distribution to the individual farms. 2. Farming operations. Once on the farm, and depending on location, season of the year, and building facilities, more fossil energy is needed for the movement of feeds from storage to the animal pens, for control of the thermal environment, and for animal waste collection and treatment. 3. Intermediate distribution. More fossil energy is required for the transport of products (meat animals to abattoirs, milk to processing plants, eggs to storage), processing (slaughtering, pasteurization, manufacture of dairy products), storage, and refrigeration during transportation.<\/p>\n

4. Final distribution and cooking. The distribution to the consumer and the final cooking process also require expenditures of fossil fuels. Did you know that it takes two calories of fossil fuel to produce one calorie of energy from soybeans? That doesn\u2019t sound like a very good deal until you learn that it takes fifty-four calories of fossil fuel to produce one [170] [171] calorie of energy from beef.<\/p>\n

Herein lies a golden opportunity\u2014perhaps the overall best opportunity to greatly reduce our global consumption of energy. On average, about twenty times more energy is required to produce meat calories than to produce whole-plant calories. According to an Ohio State University study, even the least efficient plant food is nearly ten times as efficient as the most efficient animal food.<\/p>\n

Using the more conservative number from the study, we realize that we can produce plant calories with 90 percent less energy from fossil fuels than it takes to produce the same number of meat calories. If we began a steady shift toward more plant-based foods, how big of a dent could we make in the consumption of fossil fuels?<\/p>\n

According to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the animal-foods industry accounts for a whopping one-third of all fossil fuels consumed in the United States. Let\u2019s do the math with these numbers. If we could save 90 percent of that one-third of our energy consumption, we could potentially reduce our total consumption of fossil fuel by 30 percent.<\/p>\n

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Praise for Healthy Eating, Healthy World \u201cJ. Morris Hicks has done us all a tremendous service. He has put together a simple, clear, and profoundly helpful guide to the extraordinarily powerful benefits of plant-strong nutrition. If you want to be healthy, read this amazing book. In a world hungry for hope, this book arrives at precisely the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014JOHN ROBBINS, bestselling author The Food Revolution and Diet For A New America \u201cHealthy Eating, Healthy World is more than an eye-opening, fact-filled book about the causes of poor health. It is a map leading directly to the cure. In the process, it points the way toward solving the seemingly unrelated problems of environmental destruction and world hunger.<\/p>\n

It is sensible, direct, and right.\u201d \u2014NEAL D. BARNARD, MD,President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine \u201cWhat\u2019s good for you is also good for our planet. Although heart disease and diabetes kill more people each year worldwide than all other diseases combined, these are completely preventable and even reversible for at least 95% of people today by changing our diet and lifestyle. This book shows you how.\u201d \u2014DEAN ORNISH, MD, Founder, Preventive Medicine Research Institute; Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; and author of The Spectrum and Dr. Dean Ornish\u2019s Program for Reversing Heart Disease \u201cHealthy Eating, Healthy World is by far one of my favorite books.<\/p>\n

It is incredibly informative, well researched, and a must read for anyone who eats! It takes you on a journey towards adopting a plant-based diet in a way that isn\u2019t overwhelming and provides much needed tips about eating this way for good.\u201d \u2014KIM BARNOUIN, co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Skinny Bitch \u201cPoor nutrition is our leading cause of disease.<\/p>\n

Yet the biggest impediment to improving our health is that most people mistakenly believe they are eating a good diet. With the costs of disease out of control and threatening the economic health of our country, Healthy Eating, Healthy World is a timely contribution, explaining in clear, easy-to-read language why our standard diet is making us sick, and how you can make simple choices that will improve your health, longevity and quality of life.<\/p>\n

This is a must-read book. Highly recommended!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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