York:Putnam,1983),chapter10.Histablescompareper-acre
nutritional returns from oats, broccoli, pork, milk, poultry,
andbeef.Eventhoughoatsandbroccoliarenothigh-protein
foods,noneoftheanimalfoodsproducedevenhalfasmuch
protein as the plant foods. Akers’s original sources are:
United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural
Statistics, 1979; United States Department of Agriculture,
NutritiveValueofAmericanFoods(Washington,D.C.,U.S.
GovernmentPrintingOffice,1975);andC.W.Cook,“Useof
RangelandsforFutureMeatProduction,”JournalofAnimal
Science45: 1476 (1977).
5.KeithAkers,AVegetarianSourcebook,pp.90–91,using
the sources cited above.
6.BoyceRensberger,“Curbon U.S.WasteUrged toHelp
World’s Hungry,”The New York Times, October 25, 1974.
7.ScienceNews,March5,1988,p.153,citingWorldwatch,
January/February 1988.
8.KeithAkers,AVegetarianSourcebook,p.100,basedonD.
PimentalandM.Pimental,Food,EnergyandSociety(New
York: Wiley, 1979), pp. 56, 59, and U.S. Department of
Agriculture,NutritiveValueofAmericanFoods(Washington,
D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975).
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Schuman, 1973) pp. 64–65; cited by Keith Akers, A
Vegetarian Sourcebook.