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More on Meat and Hunger

Following up yesterday’s post concerning hunger, check out this remarkable NYT article, “Rethinking the Meat Guzzler,” which outlines the social and environmental costs of America’s addiction to meat.
clipped from www.nytimes.com
Though some 800 million people on the planet now suffer from hunger or malnutrition, the majority of corn and soy grown in the world feeds cattle, pigs and chickens. This despite the inherent inefficiencies: about two to five times more grain is required to produce the same amount of calories through livestock as through direct grain consumption
an estimated 30 percent of the earth’s ice-free land is directly or indirectly involved in livestock production, according to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization, which also estimates that livestock production generates nearly a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gases
Agriculture in the United States — much of which now serves the demand for meat — contributes to nearly three-quarters of all water-quality problems in the nation’s rivers and streams
We each consume something like 110 grams of protein a day
most of us would do just fine on around 30 grams of protein a day, virtually all of it from plant sources .
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