According to Vegetarian Times...

According to Vegetarian Times, 99% of all Americans eat meat and 94 %
eat red meat. Americans have been increasing their meat consumption by
more than 1.5 pounds a year for the past decade.

An average American works only 9 minutes and 15 seconds to pay for a
hamburger. He works 3 minutes for a cocktail weiner.

Steaks have been put over the eye for centuries to heal "black eyes"
and gingivitis.

Maggots were thought to "tenderize" meat until 1845 when it was
discovered that they were poisonous.

The meat industry employes more workers than aerospace, oil and gas,
consumer electronics, internet start-ups, and retired Catskills
comedians combined.

The meat industry is so efficient in its use of spare meaty bits, that
it  gets 20% more meat per cow than in the 1960s. The industry uses
this surplus to maintain a 63 ft. Cow Golem that stands ready


Judith