Meat-based diet to blame for global food shortage
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Re: “Nine billion people in greenhouse Earth: food for thought”, Letters, May 19.
According to the UN, we might not have enough food to feed the world by 2050, notes Guy Baker. But, according to Eric Gomez, executive director of Food First, we have enough food right now to feed 10 billion people.
The problem, notes Gomez, is that we’re wasting that food feeding livestock. For example, in America, 80 per cent of corn, 90 per cent of grain and 95 per cent of oats are fed to livestock.
We can go on being slobs and putting gluttony above all other considerations. Or we can adopt a plant-based diet, which is the only option we have left for preventing future world starvation.
Eric Bahrt
