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