Meatless Monday

Keri Tucker Kirstie OravecAllie Jones Sarah Swartz

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The Finished Product

Environmental Benefits

of Meatless Monday

Saving Water

1 pound of beef = 1799 gallons of water

Benefits: No aquifer depletionWater is not being

polluted

No Animal Waste Produced

1 pound of beef = 24 pounds of manure

Benefits: No water pollutionNo air pollution

Less Crops Need to Be GrownLaw of Entropy

Plants to Cow to Human vs. Plants to Human

Benefits: Less land space neededLess pesticides usedLess fertilizer used

Less fossil fuels burned to run the tractors

Less water pollution and dead zonesLess soil deprivation and land erosion

How much meat DO American's eat?*The Average American eats about 8 ounces of meat a day. That is half a pound!

By deciding as a group to abstain from meat for a day, our group of ten people saved five pounds of meat.

Our Meatless Monday saved..

• 5 pounds of meat.

• 8,995 gallons of water.

• 120 pounds of manure was eliminated

• All of this was just because of 10 people not eating meat for one day!

Meatless Monday every week?Suppose 10 people didn't eat meat every Monday

for a year....

o 260 pounds of meat would not be consumed!

o 467,740 gallons of water would be saved!

o 6,240 pounds of manure from animals would be eliminated!

Citations

• http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html?pagewanted=all

• http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/embedded-water/

• http://www.paffa.state.pa.us/paffa2/files/specialrecords/manuretable.pdf