All the pepperoni that the US eats a year can circle the earth 50 times

Here ’s a shocking number that mouth to the USA ’s making love for gist ( and pizza pie ): we corrode so much pepperoni per year that if you put the slice side - by - side , they could circle the Earth 50 times over . The fact bit come fromBill Gates look at Vaclav Smil ’s interesting bookShould We Eat center ? . That ’s , uh , a lot .

Some more interesting points that Gates raise from Smil ’s book :

As usual , Smil offers up some challenging statistic along the way . A quarter of all deoxyephedrine - loose land in the world is used for pasture livestock . Every year , the mean meat - run through American ingests more than enough ancestry to fill a soda can .

There ’s also a look at how much water is needed to make a kilogram of boneless beef ( it measure in the several thousand of liter ) and how much meat an fair US citizen eats a year ( over 250 pounds in carcase weight unit ) .

you may readBill Gates ’ review of the book hereor buy Smil ’s bookhere . Here ’s Smil talk about eating meat in the video below .

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