Ted Rall for January 03, 1998
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Running the numbers on number two: Every year Americans eat 260 billion pounds of food. That comes to 1,000 pounds per person per year. Given that the average American gains 5 pounds per annum, 995 pounds of food comes out as dung. (Man: That's 40 tons dunkers over the course of an average lifetime!) All those feces clog landfills, foul rivers and breed disease. Nonetheless, there is an upside to our national turd flood... (Man: America has become a manufacturing nation again!)