Consume these vegetarian statistics with a grain of salt:<\/p>\n
‘If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would save:
\n\u25cf 100 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the homes in New England for almost 4 months;
\n\u25cf 1.5 billion pounds of crops otherwise fed to livestock, enough to feed the state of New Mexico for more than a year;
\n\u25cf 70 million gallons of gas–enough to fuel all the cars of Canada and Mexico combined with plenty to spare;
\n\u25cf 3 million acres of land, an area more than twice the size of Delaware;
\n\u25cf 33 tons of antibiotics.<\/p>\n
If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would prevent:
\n\u25cf Greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1.2 million tons of CO2, as much as produced by all of France;
\n\u25cf 3 million tons of soil erosion and $70 million in resulting economic damages;
\n\u25cf 4.5 million tons of animal excrement;
\n\u25cf Almost 7 tons of ammonia emissions, a major air pollutant.’<\/p>\n