Ecology of Our Environment

World Hunger

Much of the world's massive hunger problems could be solved by the reduction or elimination of meat-eating.
The reasons:
  1. livestock pasture needs cut drastically into land which could otherwise be used to grow food
  2. vast quantities of food which could feed humans is fed to livestock raised to produce meat. 
    It takes an average of 5-10 lbs of edible grain, to make 1 lb of meat !!!
  3. 7 times as much fossil fuel and conservative estimates are 50X as much water.
  • More than 840 million people in the world are malnourished
  • More than 153 million are children under the age of 5
  • Malnutrition can severely affect a child’s intellectual development
  • Six million children under age 5 die every year as a result of hunger, which translates to greater than:    
    • 6,000 per day;
    • 600 per hour;
    • 1 child every 6 seconds
Reference:  State of Food Insecurity in the World 2002.  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
www.careusa.org/campaigns/world-hunger/facts.asp

Pimentel argues that vegetarianism is much more environment-friendly than diets revolving around meat. "In terms of caloric content, the grain consumed by American livestock could feed 800 million people-and, if exported, would boost the U.S. trade balance by $80 billion a year."

And the U.S. livestock population-cattle, chickens, turkeys, lambs, pigs and the rest - consumes five times as much grain as the U.S. human population.
But then there are 7 billion of them; they outnumber us 25 to 1.

     Time Magazine, “Should You Be a Vegetarian?”, July 2002 Issue
 

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