Food For Thought

My reading today in "Serve God, Save the Planet" was quite interesting. The author, Dr. Sleeth, was offering some things to consider when making our food choices. From page 119:

To obtain billions of hamburger patties for a few cents each, America's fast-food restaurants buy much of their meat from Central and South AMerican farmers. These farmers clear-cut forests, often starting a cattle-raising process that can be sustained for only a few short years. The loss of rain forests in South America means that the clouds they once made no longer blow across the Atlantic to drop their water on Africa. As a result, the Sahara grows by thousands of acres a year. What is the bottom line for Africans? More starvation. And the bottom line for Americans? Cheap burgers and growing waistlines.