12 pounds = 5.4545 kg ; 1 pound = 0.4545 kg
- Michael Klaper, M.D. shared his knowledge with students regularly
- 12 pounds of grains is equivalent to 54 bowls of cornflakes or 12 loaves of bread
-
12 pounds of grains is equivalent to 1 pound of minced beef (if you feed the cows with the grains and get the meat from the cows)
- every cow consumes on average more than
30 kg (
66 pounds or 5.5 loaves of bread) of grains and greens daily
- farming of grains needs 1/6 acre of land, which is equivalent to 2 acres of land (12 times more) needed if the grains are used for feeding / rearing the cows
- Studies showed that
Singaporeans consume more than 20 000 metric tonnes of beef a year (emission of methane from farming is more than CO2 emisson).
- the most expensive beef in the world is the Japanese wagyu beef which has made Japanese cuisine world-famous
- in luxury restaurants beef from Kagoshima could fetch as much as S$100 per 100g
(if only 1% of serving is donated to charity/ needy or ppl in the developing world countries)
- in hawker centres a slab of beef cost S$6 (equivalent amount of beef in restaurants cost $74 = 12.3333 times more expensive)
- very soon, prices will increase further with the GST hike to 10% + inflation (on ave 40% of mthly expenditure is spent on groceries/marketing and food)
- From
Jan - Sep last year alone, Singapore imports more than 8800 kg of frozen Kagoshima beef (= wt of a large dumper truck)
- Japanese wagyu beef has such fine texture, some being graded A5, some B3, a total of 15 grades in all
According to ST newspaper dated 17 Oct 2009 "The Face of Hungry" page C20:
-
1 in 6 ppl in the world goes hungry (spiralling food prices have added to hardships where the poor can barely afford a single meal a day in the world's most desperate countries)
- 1.02 billion ppl across the world are hungry (the no. will increase if governments do not spend on agriculture)
- estimated
3.5 million ppl die annually from malnutrition
- with the lack of access to nutrients, starving ppl are more vulnerable to diseases and death
- on ave,
1 person dies every second as a result of starvation
- more than 60% of chronically hungry people are women
- lack of Vitamin A kills 1 million infants a year
- 1 billion ppl live on less than US$1 a day
Another ST article said:
-
1 child dies every 6 sec of malnutrition; 1 in 5 children in Somalia is acutely malnourished, a trend seen in impoverished countries across Africa
- UN Food and Agriculture Organistion (FAO) revealed that 30 countries now require emergency aid, including 20 in Africa (World Food Day 2009 report)
