World Hunger And Meat Production

When studying the factors involved in world hunger, many overlook meat production and consumption

When raising livestock for consumption, the meat-manufacturer must feed the animal continuously. For example, imagine all the food that a farmer feeds a pig before killing it, and compare that to the relatively small amount of food that actually comes from the dead pig. Instead of that mistreated pig, all those resources could have fed a human being, namely one of the 16,000 children who die every day from hunger...

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'The veggie answer to world hunger' is the theme of the EVU Talks 2007 in Vienna/Austria

Source: Hunger and Poverty

Other EVANA-articles about this topic:
International children’s art competition ‘we can end poverty’ (en)

27 April - 1 May 2007 - Austria (en)