Amount US taxpayers spend yearly to subsidize meat and dairy : $38 billion To subsidize fruits and vegetables : $17 million US retail price of a pound of chicken in 1935 (adjusted for inflation) : $5.07 In 2011 : $1.34 Pounds of chicken eaten annually per American in 1935 : 9 In 2011 : 56 Factor by which US per-capita consumption of chicken and other meat exceeds world average : 3 By which US incidence of cancer exceeds world average : 3 Portion of US cancer, diabetes and heart disease cases related to meat and dairy consumption : 1/3 Annual cost to treat US cases of these diseases related to meat and dairy consumption : $314 billion Portion of annual Medicare spending this represents : 3/5 Dietary cholesterol needed by humans, per National Academies’ Institute of Medicine : 0 Daily maximum recommended dietary cholesterol, per USDA (in milligrams) : 300 Milligrams of cholesterol per gram of ground beef : 0.9 Per gram of salmon : 0.9 Revenue collected by US fishing industry per pound of fish caught : $0.59 Portion of this figure funded by taxpayers as subsidies : $0.28 Pounds of dead fish and other animals discarded daily as unintended “bycatch” : 200 million Portion of the worldwide targeted catch this represents : 2/5 Portion of Earth’s wild fisheries that have collapsed and ceased producing : 1/3 Pounds of wild fish needed to raise one pound of farmed salmon or tuna : 5 Portion of US seafood that comes from fish farms : 1/2 Number of foot-long, farmed trout typically raised in a space the size of a bathtub : 27 Number of pain receptors on the face and head of a trout : 18 Average amount Americans would pay to end inhumane hyper-confinement of pigs : $345 Number of states whose animal cruelty laws do not protect farmed animals : 37 Number of federal anti-cruelty laws that protect farmed animals during their lifetimes : 0 Annual government-managed “checkoff” spending to promote meat and dairy : $557 million To promote fruits and vegetables : $51 million Grams of protein in three ounces of canned ham : 18 In three ounces of roasted pumpkin seeds : 27 Average percentage by which a vegan’s blood cholesterol level is lower than an omnivore’s : 25 By which her weight is lower : 18 By which her life expectancy is longer : 13 Human lives that a 50% excise tax on meat and dairy would save yearly : 172,000 Animal lives it would save : 26 billion Pounds this tax would cut yearly from US carbon-equivalent emissions : 3.4 trillion Pounds of carbon equivalents emitted yearly from all US motor vehicles and vessels : 3.3 trillion meatonomics/2013/08/22/meatonomics-index/
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