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The Kindest Cut on Slate is filled with mind-boggling statistics about food production, for example:

35 pounds of manure incurred per pound of saleable beef.

and

The poultry-broiler industry consumed some 240 billion megajoules of energy in 2005, or the equivalent of 42 million barrels of crude oil. That’s more than the entire country of Sri Lanka consumed the same year—all to keep us well-stocked with wings and drumsticks.

and

The livestock industry as a whole consumes a whopping share of the world’s crops—at least 80 percent of all soybeans and more than half of all corn.

and

food writer Michael Pollan recently suggested that if Americans went meatless one night a week, it would be equivalent to taking “30 to 40 million cars off the road for a year.”

I do like eating meat, but we’ve tried to cut back a bit. Maybe we should look in to raising some chickens in the back 40.

friday dinner – hamburger with bacon

saturday breakfast – nothing

saturday lunch – hamburger with bacon

saturday afternoon – beef jerky

saturday early evening – beef jerky

saturday dinner – steak, bratwurst patty

saturday after dinner snack – beef jerky

saturday pre-storm snack – bratwurst patty

sunday breakfast – chorizo (and eggs)

sunday brunch – ham

sunday afternoon snack – hamburger

sunday dinner – hamburger

it’s safe to say that i don’t need any meat in my diet for the next 2-3 months