i will point out that an argument that the "diet for a small planet" author put forward a LONG time ago was that we are producing so much food that we have to DUMP it by feeding human food (corn) to cattle, instead of letting them eat grass, which is not food for people.
basically we put several POUNDS of human edible food into each pound of meat, when that SAME pound of meat can be had for no, NO, loss of human grade food (by letting cattle eat grass, chickens eat weed seeds, and bugs, etc)
now most of her fellows then use that to advocate for a vegan diet. not going to talk about that... its off topic, but the basic fact is that enough food is produced that we can deliberately reduce it by something like 4 to one.... and STILL export food to the rest of the world
most of the inability to feed places comes from waste, civil war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, bad transportation, etc...
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Date: 2012-05-06 02:37 am (UTC)basically we put several POUNDS of human edible food into each pound of meat, when that SAME pound of meat can be had for no, NO, loss of human grade food (by letting cattle eat grass, chickens eat weed seeds, and bugs, etc)
now most of her fellows then use that to advocate for a vegan diet. not going to talk about that... its off topic, but the basic fact is that enough food is produced that we can deliberately reduce it by something like 4 to one....
and STILL export food to the rest of the world
most of the inability to feed places comes from waste, civil war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, bad transportation, etc...