"According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, more than 25,000 people die of starvation every day" (Wikipedia, "Starvation")
"One acre of land can produce 40,000 pounds of potatoes, or 250 pounds of beef." (http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/2062/argu.HTML)
Imagine if grew potatoes (and other vergetables, which produce simillar results to potatoes, in the thousands of pounds per acre) instead of meat. We'd EASILY have enough food to wipe out starvation.
So my question is, as the population of the world increases, and starvation increases, will more people have their eyes opened to this fact, and will vegetarianism ever be the default diet to humans as an omnivore diet is now? Will meat eating be looked down with with scorn, even disgust, by future generations? Many sci-fi writers have foreseen it, and I think its very likely. What do you think?
2007-01-17
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Byron A
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Vegetarian & Vegan