Feed people, not animals for slaughter

As much as 80 per cent of the global soybean crop and 40-50 per cent of the annual corn crop (according to the University of Manitoba) are used to feed animals we kill for food instead of to feed starving humans. Nearly 870 million people were undernourished around the world between 2010-2012 (UN Food and Agriculture Organisation). If we stopped intensively breeding farmed animals and instead grew crops to feed humans, we could easily feed everyone on the planet with healthy and affordable vegetarian food. Typically, 3 kilograms of grain is needed to produce just 1kg of meat. 

Food supply drove the populations of the great civilisations to increase. Those populations always pushed the limits of the food supply to the breaking point. Some lasted hundreds of years, until further expansion became impossible. Agriculture nourished the great civilisations, each of which inevitably collapsed under its own weight – and each empire’s collapse included starvation and violence. We’ve again done what we’ve always done: pushed the limits of our food supply to the breaking point. 

Nuntanit Bumrungsap

Bangkok