Feed the World Why eating meat is a major cause of world hunger
- and going vegetarian is a solution. The roots of hunger / The
problem today / Breeding animals means starving people / Where
does the animal feed come from? / Who is hungry? / World Trade /
Why are countries in debt? / In the hands of the rich / Aid /
Falling Harvests / The Green Revolution / The “Livestock
Revolution” / The insanity of factory farming / Malnutrition and
obesity / Send a cow / Hippo / Fish Farming / Global water
shortage / GM - the truth / The solution is in our hands /
References Introduction by Jeremy Rifkin Meat makes the rich ill
and the poor hungry by Jeremy Rifkin When representatives meet
at the World Food Summit they supposedly focus on how to get
food into the mouths of nearly one billion people who are
currently undernourished. However, at all the dinners they
attend you can expect to see the consumption of large quantities
of meat. And herein lies the contradiction. People go hungry
because much of arable land is use