After a recent study to examine the land requirements of vegetarian and meat diets, Cornell University research revealed that a vegetarian diet uses less than one quarter the land required by a meat-based diet. The study concluded that if everyone in the state of New York followed a low-fat vegetarian diet, the state would be able to agriculturally support almost 50 percent more people.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071008130203.htm

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