From The Maker's Diet:
Myth: Meat consumption contributes to famine and depletes the earth's natural resources...The fact is, two-thirds of the earth's landmass is unsuitable for farming, but easily provides food for grazing animals.
...two-thirds of the plants and plant products fed to animals are unsuited for human consumption. Both the animals and the plants are renewable resources, in no danger of depletion.
People do need to eat an abundance of plant products for good health, but the problem has never been a shortage of these foods, rather their equitable distribution as well as widespread poverty. Even the Population Reference Bureau attributed the world hunger problem to poverty, not eating meat, and did not consider mass vegetarianism to be a solution to world hunger.
-D
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