Eating lower on the food chain

Reasons for eating lower on the food chain to think about:

The animal industry uses massive amounts of water and land. Roughly 70 percent of the grains grown in the United States go to feed animals, who eventually become food. This takes up much of the arable land that could be used to feed people directly. It takes ten times the fossil fuels to produce a calorie of animal food as it does to produce plant food.

Eating lower on the food chain will lower resource use and allow more people to live at a comparable standard of living. As it is now, some people eat steak (high on the food chain), while others starve. Eating lower on the food chain (not eating steak) could allow everyone to eat.

A study by the Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Defense Fund revealed that breast milk of vegetarian women contained significantly lower levels of pesticide residues than that of meat-eating women.I think if we care about children growing up this could be a lot of help for the future.