The Hunger Argument against meat-eating
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.
This year alone, twenty million people worldwide will die as a
result of malnutrition. One child dies of malnutrition every 2.3
seconds.
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. 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.
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