For every 16 pounds of grain and soy fed to beef cattle in … - Frances Moore Lappé

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For every 16 pounds of grain and soy fed to beef cattle in the United States we only get 1 pound back in meat on our plates. The other 15 pounds are inaccessible to us, either used by the animal to produce energy or to make some part of its own body that we do not eat (like hair or bones) or excreted.

Frances Moore Lappé

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About Frances Moore Lappé

(born February 10, 1944) is the author of 18 books including (1971) that The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History describes as “one of the most influential political tracts of the times." She is the co-founder of three national organizations that explore the roots of hunger, poverty and environmental crises, as well as solutions now emerging worldwide through what she calls Living Democracy.

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Our production system takes abundant grain, which hungry people can't afford, and shrinks it into meat, which better-off people will pay for. But … our production system not only reduces abundance but actually mines the very resources on which our future food security rests.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

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