-
Greenhouse (glasshouse) operators often add CO2 for faster and healthier plant growth?
-
The larger the plant, the more CO2 it needs for photosynthesis?
-
Per capita food production has INCREASED since 1961, even though world population has gone from approximately 3 billion to over 6 billion?
-
The summer minimum arctic polar ice cap (the smallest size it shrinks to in midsummer warmth) in 2008 was an ice cap 150,000 square miles BIGGER than in 2007. And 2009 was colder still. Yes indeed - your COOL stat of the day.
-
The amount of forest covering on earth is by some accounts actually growing. Individual countries like Australia, the United States, and India have seen aforestation rather than deforestation.
-
Farrowing crates were designed to protect piglets from their mothers eating and/or rolling over on them and killing them?
-
1.5 billion hectares of land worldwide are cultivated.
-
There are approximately 3.3 billion hectares (8.3 billion acres) of agricultural land in the world that are unsuitable for cropping?
-
Ruminants (four-stomached animals like cattle, sheep, and goats) can convert grass into a usable food for humans?
-
Roughly ¼ of the earth’s land surface is pastureland, which includes cultivated or wild forage crops and open land used for grazing.
-
Feedlots improve the efficiency of beef and lamb production, making better use of resources to provide more product at a cheaper price?
-
The amount of methane emitted from sheep and cattle in feedlots is less than from ruminants on grass?
-
Gelatine is made from the collagen inside animals’ skins and bones?
-
Thanks to advanced technology, one US farmer can currently feed 129 people? In 1960, one farmer fed 25 people.
-
Australian farmers feed 60 million people daily? This is almost three times our own population!
-
Beef by-products enable us to use 99% of every beef animal.
-
Some products that use beef by-products include: yoghurt, car tyres, drywall, and medical products [including trypsin (for cleaning wounds and ulcers), corticotrophin (for treating allergies, arthritis and respiratory diseases), iron (for treating anaemia), thrombin (for blood coagulation)], lubricants and fluids, industrial cleaners and fertilisers, printing ink and high gloss for magazines.
-
Meat is rich in protein, iron, zinc, vitamin B6 and B12 and the body better absorbs iron and the zinc in meat than that found in plant foods
-
There is no statistically significant variation in the amount of Estrogen in meat treated with hormone growth promotants versus non-treated?
-
The amount of Estrogen in cabbage is 1200 times more than in an equal serve (by weight) of beef!
* Measurements are in nanograms. A nanogram is one billionth of a gram, which can be compared to one blade of grass in an entire football field.