Earth Blog <earth-blog@nospam.com> wrote:
> In June 2006 there were 6,525,000,000 people on the Earth, each consuming an
> average of 2800 calories per day. That's a total of around 18 trillion
> calories per day, all of which have to come from somewhere; meat, dairy
> products, legumes, leafy vegetables, cereals, beets.ultimately though, from
> the soil, the rain and the sun.
....

The US data is fairly convincing.

States like: servings meat/wk Lifex Linear model
Massachusetts 0 80.5 80.0073
Connecticut 1.5 80.8 79.5055*
Washington 2 79.9 79.3382
Florida 3 79.4 79.0036
Georgia 3 77.2 79.0036*
Michigan 3 78.2 79.0036
Virginia 3 79 79.0036
Wyoming 3.5 78.3 78.8364
Ohio 4 77.8 78.6691
Missouri 6 77.5 78
South.Dakota 6 79.5 78*
Pennsylvania 6.5 78.5 77.8327
Oklahoma 7 75.9 77.6655*
Kansas 8 78.7 77.3309*
(Binned by similar states).

Beta = -.33 +- .24(90% CI)
T-test: P(beta<0) = 98%
Rank test: P(beta<0) 95%
R2 = 24%

Heart and colon cancers figure big but all cancers also are weakly +ve
corrlated at 80-90% conf.

heart attacks/100k
Massachusetts 0 77 84.5968
California 1 91 86.7729
Connecticut 2 76 88.949*
North.Carolina 2 92.1 88.949
Washington 2 85.1 88.949
Alaska 3 81.1 91.1251
Florida 3 96.9 91.1251
Georgia 3 79.1 91.1251*
Pennsylvania 3 101.8 91.1251
South.Carolina 3 95.1 91.1251
Virginia 3 84.6 91.1251
Kentucky 4 109.8 93.3012*
Wyoming 4 88.6 93.3012
Ohio 5 111.1 95.4773*
Louisiana 6 109.1 97.6534*
Missouri 6 114.9 97.6534*
Wisconsin 6 91.3 97.6534
Kansas 8 87.1 102.006*
South.Dakota 8 107.4 102.006
North.Dakota 9 89.1 104.182*

Beta = 2.2+-1.8(90% CI)
T-test: P(beta>0) = 97%
Rank test 95%
R2 = 20%

But an even bigger hit is in household income. It seems Americans
put themselves in the poor house for the sake of red meat.

HH inc 000s/yr
Vermont 0 95.6833 107.523*
California 1 111.633 104.586
New.Hampshire 1 114.681 104.586*
New.York 1 105.572 104.586
Oregon 1 107.796 104.586
Hawaii 2 105.979 101.65
Washington 2 110.68 101.65*
Alaska 3 100.086 98.7139
Arizona 3 96.3647 98.7139
Idaho 3 91.7219 98.7139
Michigan 3 92.0735 98.7139
Minnesota 3 104.195 98.7139
Nevada 3 92.4573 98.7139
Pennsylvania 3 99.6815 98.7139
Colorado 4 107.936 95.7776*
Kentucky 4 87.4741 95.7776*
Wyoming 4 84.5002 95.7776*
Illinois 5 103.959 92.8414*
Ohio 5 90.3967 92.8414
Indiana 6 87.1391 89.9051
Louisiana 6 78.1249 89.9051*
Missouri 6 83.3961 89.9051
Wisconsin 6 90.6953 89.9051
Oklahoma 7 84.9741 86.9688
South.Dakota 8 83.575 84.0326
North.Dakota 9 90.6471 81.0963*
Montana 10 81.6382 78.1601

Beta = -2.9 +- 1(90% CI)
P(beta>0) 99% T-test; 99% Rank test
R2 = 52%

But who wants to be richer,live longer and be healthier when you
can be a slave to Big Ag?