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Your support makes all the difference.Percentage of the world's land mass occupied by cattle: 24
Percentage of parents with children under five using day-care arrangements: 70
Percentage of households with microwave ovens: 55
English country parishes without rail services: 7,347
Tonnes of world crude oil produced every second: 99
Tonnes of oil-equivalent energy produced within the EC per second: 18
Tonnes of oil-equivalent energy lost within the EC per second: 19
Supertanker-loads of surplus cereals stored in EC granaries in 1992: 250
British farmers, their wives and children leaving the land 1991-92: 46,000
Percentage of US heart transplant patients now surviving more than a year: 82
US Nobel prizewinners in literature: 9
In physiology or medicine: 68
Average budget of a 1991 British-financed film: pounds 2,460,000
Estimated ultimate cost of a currently-shooting Hollywood picture Cliffhanger: pounds 47,000,000
British hotels among 2,000 surveyed which found cat-o'-nine-tails left in bedrooms: 1
Sources: Jeremy Rifkin, Beyond Beef; OPCS; ibid; RM/Rural Development Council (under 10K pop); RM/BP Statistical Review; RM/Eurostat; ibid; ibid; MAFF; USA Today; The Nobel Foundation; ibid; BFI; Variety (dollars 73m); Automobile Association.
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