For the past year of so I've been reading about, cooking, and slowly changing the way I think and eat food. Primarily I've been reading about vegetarian and raw food cooking. I'm not quite ready to completly give up on meat, however I have been slowly changing my diet to include more veggie-type recipes and less meat heavy dishes. Anyway, I got this book for Christmas called Student's Vegetarian Cookbook and was impressed with it's quick and easy recipes and good information on why eating and living vegetarian is a more sustainable and widely accepted lifestyle than most people think.

Here's two things I found interesting about the sustainability of vegetarian lifestyles:
one acre of land can produce:
30,000 lbs of apples,
40,000 lbs of potatoes,
50,000 lbs of tomatoes,
or 250 lbs of beef

Livestock consume 70 percent of the US grain production. 20million people die each year from malnutrition and starvation. Americans could feed 100,000,000 people by reducing their meat intake by just 10 percent

Okay, so I'm not gonna be one of those radical people who are insisting that all the world's problems could be solved by becoming vegetarians..but it really makes you think