What is the best way to end world hunger?
World hunger can be ended if more people in the developed countries adopt a vegetarian diet. Raising animals for food is an extremely inefficient way to feed a growing human population. The U.S. livestock population consumes enough grain and soybeans to feed more than five times the entire U.S. population. One acre of pasture produces an average of 165 pounds of beef; the same acre can produce 20,000 pounds of potatoes. If Americans reduced their meat consumption by only 10 percent, it would free 12 million tons of grain annually for human consumption. That alone would be enough to adequately feed each of the 60 million people who starve to death each year. Any righteous and conscientious person would feel obliged to play their part in freeing up foods for the starving children of the third world.
