Tuesday February 26, 2008, 1:53 pm
The trouble is the "we" should constantly be the United States feeding the world. We have to TEACH other countries how to provide for themselves, and once taught, expect them to learn to grow, tend & harvest their own crops. Too much time, $'s & energy is spent on providing rather than enlightening & teaching.

Tuesday February 26, 2008, 2:44 pm
Please note the correlation between the rise in the demand for meat and the increase of world hunger. If more of the world ate vegetarian diets, this problem wouldn't be as severe.

Thursday February 28, 2008, 2:54 am
This story misses the point! There is plenty of food in the world. Pricing puts it in the hands of those who have money, those who don't starve to death. It is the unequal distribution of money folks. It all about disaster Capitalism. Read Naomi Klien's book on Shock Therapy and she explains it so well.

Thursday February 28, 2008, 4:11 am
It's called growth and developement. We now plant foundations in what were farms.
Strip malls and subdivisions are the offspring of coporate greed. The same greed that now controols most governments.

Thursday February 28, 2008, 4:36 am
What you both say is true to a certain extent. But realize that the more land we strip to grow crops to feed livestock, the worse effect on the environment. That also means less food crops for humans. If we didn't have to worry about feeding soooo many animals raised just for meat consumption, we could have a more equal distribution of food. This article doesn't "miss the mark." It focuses on a very important aspect of the situation. I completely agree with your assessment of corporate greed playing its role, as well.

Thursday February 28, 2008, 5:00 am
Or you could tie it all together even more: Factory farming is a form of corporate greed. They are stripping the land to grow crops which aren't even very good for the cattle. This is land we could use to grow crops for poor people. But, instead, they want to profit off of the animals' suffering, not caring about the environment, the animals, or the hungry people on the planet. All this affects pricing, which puts it in the hands of those who have money, and so on. It's all tied together. A friend of mine pointed out that it's all in a book from 1972, Diet for a Small Planet.
Ricardo, I'll definitly look for the book Shock Therapy. It sounds like it makes some very valid, crucial points about our world.

Thursday February 28, 2008, 9:39 pm

Going Vegetarian or Vegan makes a HUGE difference.

I think it's something like 16 pounds of grain to produce 1 pound of beef.

Someone can correct me on that, but I think it's something around there,
I'll dig up a link to the list of how many we could feed with the grain that farm animals eat unless someone else has a link handy for the numbers.

An astronomical waste of water and lots of other reasons point towards us all not eating meat.

Friday February 29, 2008, 5:50 am
If you're not vegetarian then order yourself a free vegetarian starter pack:
http://www.peta.org.uk/feat/UKvegkit/vegkitform.asp (UK)
http://www.goveg.com/order.asp (USA)