mass starvation
mass starvation
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The profligacy of livestock farming is astonishing. Already, 36% of the calories grown in the form of grain and pulses – and 53% of the protein – are used to feed farm animals. Two-thirds of this food is lost in conversion from plant to animal. A graph produced last week by Our World in Data suggests that, on average, you need 0.01m2 of land to produce a gram of protein from beans or peas, but 1m2 to produce it from beef cattle or sheep: a 100-fold difference.
- And produces 7% of greenhouse gasses, that contribute to climate change that is causing mass starvation through inability to grow maize in Africa.kingsteven
- Large scale export farming in India is contributing to mass flooding... wiping out small farms that grow more varied crops for local consumption...kingsteven
- All of this causes instability and mass migration which in turn stokes support for politicians that deny humanitarian responsibility by shutting borders.kingsteven