Facts excerpted from the Pulitzer Prize nominated DIET FOR A NEW AMERICA By John Robbins

• Wingspan of average leghorn chicken: 26 inches
• Space average leghorn chicken given in egg factories: 6 inches
• Number of 700 plus pounds pigs confined to space the size of a twin bed in typical factory farm: 3
• Reason today's veal is so tender: Calves never allowed to take single step
• Reason today's veal is whitish-pink: Calves force fed an anaemia producing diet
• McDonald's brags: 60 million sold
• McDonald's doesn't brag about: 50 million butchered
• McDonald's clown, Ronald McDonald, tells children:
  Hamburgers grow in hamburger patches and love to be eaten
• McDonald's clown, Ronald McDonald,doesn't tell children:
  Hamburgers are ground up cows who have had their throats slit by machetes or their brains bashed in by sledgehammers
• Original actor to play Ronald McDonald: Jeff Juliano
• Diet now followed by Jeff Juliano: Vegetarian
• Number of animals killed for meat per hour in U.S.: 500,000
• Occupation with highest employee turnover rate in U.S.:
  Slaughterhouse worker
• Occupation with highest employee rate of injury in U.S.:
  Slaughterhouse worker
• Cost to render an animal unconscious prior to slaughter with captive bolt pistol so that process is done humanely: 1 penny
• Reason given by meat industry for not utilizing captive bolt pistol:
  Too expensive