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* The Meat Board doesn't want us to know: How potent dioxin and other pesticides are
* The Meat Board particularly doesn't want us to know: A mere ounce of dioxin could kill 10 million people
* The USDA tells us: Our meat is inspected
* The USDA doesn't tell us: Less than 1 out of every quarter million slaughtered animals is tested for toxic chemical residues
* The dye used for many years by the USDA for many years to stamp meats "Choice", "Prime", or "U.S. No. 1 USDA": Violet dye No. 1
* Current status of Violet Dye No. 1: Banned as proven carcinogen
* Wingspan of average Leghorn chicken: 26 inches
* Space average leghorn chicken given in egg factories: 6 inches
* Number of 700lb plus pound pigs confined to space the size of a twin bed in typical factory farm: 3
* Reason today's veal is so tender: Calves never allowed to take a SINGLE step
* Reason today's veal is whitish-pink: Calves FORCE FED on anemia producing diet
* McDonald's brags: 60 Billion sold
* McDonald's doesn't brag about: 50 million butchered
* McDonald's clown, Ronald McDonald, tells children: Hamburgers grow in hamburger patches and love to be eaten.
* McDonald's clown, Ronald McDonald, doesn't tell children: Hamburgers are ground up cows who've had their throats slit by machetes or their brains bashed in by sledgehammers.
* Original actor to play Ronald McDonald: Jeff Juliano
* Diet now followed by Jeff Juliano: Vegetarian
* Number of animals killed for meat per hour in U.S.: 500,000
* Occupation with highest turnover rate in U.S.: Slaughterhouse worker
* Occupation with highest employee rate of injury in U.S.: Slaughterhouse worker
* Cost to render an animal unconscious prior to slaughter with captive bolt pistol so that process is done humanely: 1 penny
* Reason given by meat industry for not utilizing captive bolt pistol: Too expensive


* Percentage of total antibiotics used in U.S. fed routinely to livestock: 55%
* Percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin in 1960: 13%
* Percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin in 1988: 91%
* Reason for resistance: Breeding of antibiotic resistant bacteria in factory farms due to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock
* Effectiveness of all "wonder-drug" antibiotics: Declining rapidly
* Reason for ineffectivness: Breeding of antibiotic resistant bacteria in factory farms due to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock
* Response by entire European Economic Community to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: Banned
* Response by American meat and pharmaceutical industries to routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock: Full and complete support
* Only man to win Ironman Triathalon more than twice: Dave Scott (6 time winner)
* Food choices of Dave Scott: Vegetarian
* World record holder for 24 triathalon (Swim 4.8 miles, Cycle 185 miles, Run 52.5): Sixto Linares
* Food choices of Sixto Linares: Strict vegetarian
* Athlete who most totally dominated Olympic sport in track and field history: Edwin Moses (undefeated in 8 years, 400 meter hurdles)
* Food choices of Edwin Moses: Vegetarian