Showing posts with label food poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food poverty. Show all posts

Thursday 1 November 2012

ONE BILLION PEOPLE GO HUNGRY.


     Some facts that might interest you and perhaps encourage you to take direct action.

Food inequality

Factory farming breaks our food systems, taking grain and other precious resources from those that need it most.

food inequality

There is a huge gap between the 'haves' and the 'have nots' when it comes to the distribution of food around the world; around 1 billion people do not have enough to eat and this crisis currently kills more people than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined1. In stark contrast, around 1.5 billion people in the Western world are classified as overweight, around a third of whom are obese2. The situation is challenging efforts to achieve the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger3. Although small-scale livestock farming plays a vital role in developing countries, contributing to the wellbeing of more than 800 million poor smallholders4, large-scale factory farming is actually compounding the food crisis.

Raising the demand for feed

Around two thirds of farm animals worldwide are currently factory farmed, reared in systems that are dependent on cereal and soya feeds for fast growth and high yields. Although dairy cows are naturally adapted to grazing and eating grasses, they are now being bred to be more dependent on cereal and soya feeds too. This demand for feed essentially means that we are putting humans in competition with farm animals; we're literally taking high-quality, nutrient-rich foods that people could eat and feeding them to our farm animals.
a RAW fact

Over 90% of soya meal and 60% of maize (corn) and barley are grown for animal feed.

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