I was contemplating suicide by the fourth day...... 
Here's a bit more on the subject:
There are a multitude of reasons
one may choose to either reduce or eliminate Meat and Dairy from
their diets, not the least of which is health based. I will largely
ignore the somewhat compelling issue of our right to enslave
millions of animals to a putrid existence and spend only a little
time on the tremendous burden our meat based diet places on the
environment. Both of these issues are handled well in many books,
perhaps most notably Diet for a New America by John Robbins whose
life is an interesting story unto itself. Most people would be
amazed when confronted with the phenomenal environmental cost of
meat based diets. For example, about one half of our harvested
acreage goes to feed livestock but for every 16 pounds of this
grain we get only one pound back as meat. However, that 16 pounds
of grain has 21 times more calories and eight times more protein
than a pound of hamburger. Actually during WWI Denmark was cut off
from all supplies and were forced to deal with the possibility of
great food shortages. In response they opted to stop feeding the
grain to their cattle and instead use it to feed the people. Sort
of a mass vege experiment with about 3million subjects. During the
one year of these tight restrictions the mortality rate from
disease was by far the lowest in recorded history with over a 34%
drop. Evidence abounds that longer healthier lives are had by
vegetarians worldwide. Furthermore, the toll on our precious
drinking water is tremendous with one pound of steak requiring
2,500 gallons of water meaning that just 10 pounds of steak is more
than my entire household use of water for one full year. This
ignores the staggering levels of pollution from both meat and dairy
propagation that result in highly inefficient use of our
resources.
Jarrod Jablonski - President, Global Underwater Explorers
