A. Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, DC, states: “People of the World go hungry because much of arable land is used to grow feed-grain for animals rather than people.” As one example, the Ethiopian famine of 1984, was fueled by the meat industry. “While people starved, Ethiopia was growing linseed cake, cottonseed cake and rapeseed meal for European livestock,” he says. “Millions of acres of land in the developing world are used for this purpose. Tragically, 80 percent of the world’s hungry-children live in countries with food surpluses which are fed to animals for consumption by the affluent.”
Keep meat consumption to a minimum.........or better still go vegan/vegetarian.
I started eating some white-meat such as organic chicken and cold-water fish a few years ago after 27 odd years on a vegan/fruitarian/vegetarian diet.