Steve Jones, Emeritus Professor of Genetics at University College
London, believes that with a growing population of now at seven billion
people, a better way to feed the world needs to be found. According to
Jones, we should stop fattening animals to feed people and instead
divert that grain to feed people directly.
The amount of agricultural land, already scarce around the world, is
used mainly to grow food to feed farmed animals. This use of land is
wasteful and it also leads to the destruction of grasslands and
rainforests. Please visit Global population reaches 7 billion: can we
really feed the world?:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/steve-jones/8847544/Global-population-reaches-7-billion-can-we-really-feed-the-world.html
The higher we eat on the food pyramid, the fewer people get fed. On
the same token, the lower we eat on the food pyramid, the more people
get fed. Unless we embrace this simple fact, billions of people will
continue to go malnourished every year. Our Christian faith calls us to
feed the poor and the hungry, and adopting a plant-based diet might be
one of the most effective ways to do it.
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