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Action 2 - Skip a Beef Meal
Quick Facts on Burgers

  • Every year, Americans eat an amount of beef equal to more than 72 BILLION quarter-pounders. It takes more than 36 million cows to produce all that beef.
  • It takes an average of 600 gallons of water to make every quarter-pound burger.
  • More than a pound of grain goes into making that quarter-pound of meat. And while that grain was growing, 1.2 pounds of soil washed away from erosion—soil that can cause big trouble somewhere downstream.
  • One third of the land in the world is used for raising livestock.
  • In 1997, cattle in the United States produced 1.2 billion tons of manure, the same weight as more than 3 million 747 jumbo jets.

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Impact Box
23828 PCW Paper Products Bought
251,240 gallons of water saved
587.00 trees saved
51,328 pounds of CO2 prevented

21101 Beef Meals Skipped
16,486,779 gallons of water saved
121,753 pounds of CO2 prevented

7292 Light Bulbs Replaced
1,910,504 pounds of CO2 prevented

2968 Showerheads Replaced
12,664,456 gallons of water saved
744,968 pounds of CO2 prevented
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