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Meat Production Environment Humans Population

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  • Between 1950 and 1994, global meat production increased nearly fourfold, rising faster than the human population. During this period, production rates jumped from 18 to 35.4 kilograms per person
  • Overpopulation puts pressure on the earth's resources
  • Each person has needs for food, water, shelter, heating/cooling and transportation. To a large extent domesticated animals have the same needs.
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  • In United States, farm animals outweigh their human brethren by a factor of four to one, effectively making the US "population” balloon from 295 million to 1.2 billion.
  • In Canada, farm animals also outweigh people by a factor of four to one. On a given day there are approximately 14.6 million beef and dairy cattle, 13 million pigs, 8 million turkeys, 96 million chickens, and 30 million people alive in Canada.3
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The un-natural overp - 0 views

The un-natural overproduction of farm animals for consumer needs has surpassed the human population. We are eating more animals than we should be, only because we have it at our hands to do so. If ...

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Exercise drops when teens enter college - UPI.com - 0 views

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University Teens Exercise

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  • The amount of regular exercise teens get drops off severely once they enter college, especially among males, researchers in Canada say.
  • 24 percent decrease in physical activity during the 12 years from adolescence to early adulthood
  • The steepest declines were among young men entering university or college.
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  • Using data from Statistics Canada's National Population Health Survey, the researchers tracked 683 Canadian adolescents ages 12-15, who were interviewed twice a year until they were ages 24-27.
  • This is a critical period, as the changes in physical activity during the transition from late adolescence to early adulthood represents the most dramatic declines in physical activity across a person's life
  • The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found the rate of decline in physical activity was greater for men than for women, who showed only a modest 1.7 per cent decrease in their overall activity levels
  • "It may be that girls experience the greatest declines in physical activity earlier in their adolescence
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