The argument that without eating animals, we'd choke with extra methane gas or that the extra animal population would eat up all the grain, grass and veggies is a fallacy. Livestock in commercial farms are bred far more than they would naturally on their own. A cow left to its own in a herd, would typically have an average of 3 calves in its life. A cow in a factory farm can have more than 10 times that. In many cases they're being artificially inseminated the same day that they give birth to one calf meaning they spend their entire adult lives pregnant.

The ratio I've been given is that it takes 16 vegetarian meals' worth of grain, soybeans and water to produce one meal for a meat-based diet.


Rich