The World Hunger Issue...
Much of the world's massive hunger problems could be solved by the reduction or elimination of meat-eating. The reasons:

livestock pasture needs cut drastically into land which could otherwise be used to grow food;

vast quantities of food which could feed humans is fed to livestock raised to produce meat.

This year alone, twenty million people worldwide will die as a result of malnutrition - that means 35,000 people will die today. One child starves to death every 2.3 seconds. And yet there is plenty of food. One hundred million people could be adequately fed using the land freed if Americans reduced their intake of meat by a mere 10%.

Twenty percent of the corn grown in the U.S. is eaten by people. Eighty percent of the corn and 95% of the oats grown in the U.S. is eaten by livestock. Sixty-four percent of American agricultural land is used for livestock feed The percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock is calculated by experts as 90%.

One acre of land can produce 40,000 pounds of potatoes, or 250 pounds of beef. Fifty-six percent of all U.S. farmland is devoted to beef production, and to produce each pound of beef requires 16 pounds of edible grain and soybeans, which could be used to feed the hungry. Fifteen total vegetarians can be fed on the same amount of land needed to feed one person on a meat based diet.

More than half of the water used in the U.S. goes to livestock production. It can take up to 2,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of meat.



Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. --- Albert Einstein, physicist



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