UN Links Livestock Raising to Global Food Shortage

Thanks SS

Yeah - true Paschen - its easier just to not eat meat. Simple.

Your complicated dude - keep it simple - have fun, and if you can try not to eat meat for the benefit of the world thats great.

Thats so cool dude.

The problem with apologizing for meat eating, particularly when bringing up the issue of areas where vegetable production is severely limited is that it draws attention away from the main point. In most areas of the world, meat eating is an unsustainable luxury that depends on the use of resources that would otherwise go to feeding the starving.

Native populations, such as the inuit in Alaska have had a balanced relationship with the earth and the wild game she provides. There is no need to control this practice

Other than that, it is corporate interests that "farm" animals for slaughter in huge proportions, cutting down rain forests, polluting rivers and watersheds, using valuable grain, marketing their meats for consumption by the rich with no regard for the impact of their practices.

Therefore, all we can do as concerned citizens who never again want to see a photograph like the one of the starving child which accompanied this article, is to learn how we can sustain ourselves without eating meat. If enough of us take this on, we can make a difference in the world.

The problem with apologizing for meat eating, particularly when bringing up the issue of areas where vegetable production is severely limited is that it draws attention away from the main point. In most areas of the world, meat eating is an unsustainable luxury that depends on the use of resources that would otherwise go to feeding the starving.

Native populations, such as the inuit in Alaska have had a balanced relationship with the earth and the wild game she provides. There is no need to control this practice

Other than that, it is corporate interests that "farm" animals for slaughter in huge proportions, cutting down rain forests, polluting rivers and watersheds, using valuable grain, marketing their meats for consumption by the rich with no regard for the impact of their practices.

Therefore, all we can do as concerned citizens who never again want to see a photograph like the one of the starving child which accompanied this article, is to learn how we can sustain ourselves without eating meat. If enough of us take this on, we can make a difference in the world.

Nature has its own walk, and we humans cannot influence that. In ancient times men went out to hunt animals to eat meat, this is so much ingrained in all living societies that it is next to impossible to be eradicated. And that is not the cause of stravation in this world. It is bad management. Sending money to countries with famine doesn't help the needy. The money is pocketed by the corrupt heads in charge. I remember when India was a country suffering from famine like Africa today, the US send money and shiploads of rice. When the rice bags were unloaded by hand, the Russians stood there to put a stamp on the bags in he local language saying. 'This rice is given by the Soviets'. The US and many other thought to have done a good job, but the Indian people took it for granted and didn't start to work for their own food, they only made more babies. Gahndy was one of the first to acknowledge that.  A program with foreign help was implemented to learn locals work the land, breed chickens, cows and pigs to make their own food. Such should be done in Africa as well. We have lots of unemployed well  trained youth, instead of keeping them on the dole, send these to countries to work together with locals in he same manner. Motivation, training and working by example in demonstrating how people can survive and take care for themselves is the only successful help we from the west should supply.

what nations with hungry people shall do ?  i warn they will produce another TALIBAN .