• Fat in one foil-packaged restaurant serving of butter -- 6 grams
• Fat in one Burger King "Whopper" -- 40 grams
• Amount of global-warming carbon dioxide released by driving a typical American car, in one day -- 3 kg
• Amount released by clearing and burning enough Costa Rican rainforest to produce beef for one hamburger -- 75 kg
• Amount spent annually by McDonald's advertising its products -- $800 million
• Amount spent annually by the National Cancer Institute promoting fruits and vegetables -- $1 million
• Average cholesterol level in the United States -- 210
• Average cholesterol level of vegetarians in the United States -- 161
• Gallons of oil spilled by the Exxon-Valdez -- 12 million
• Gallons of putrefying hog urine and feces spilled into the New River in North Carolina (immediately killing over 10 million fish) when a "lagoon" holding 8 acres of excrement burst -- 25 million
• Prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in chickens in Denmark prior to a ban on routine use of antibiotics in chicken production -- 82 percent
• Prevalence three years after the ban -- 12 percent

Sources: John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and the World (Berkeley: Conari Press, 2001). Robbins citations: Burger King Corporation, 2000 (Whopper); Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly, January 2, 1997 (McDonald’s); Archives of Internal Medicine, 1986 (cholesterol); Feedstuffs, July 3, 1995 (hog waste); World Watch, July/August 1994 (carbon dioxide); Center for Science in the Public Interest, 1999 (antibiotics).