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PREDICTING END TO WORLD HUNGER in "1974 Henry Kissinger, then America's secretary of state, told the first world food conference in Rome that no child would go to bed hungry within ten years. Just over 35 years later, in the week of another United Nations food summit in Rome, 1 billion people will go to bed hungry."" " http://lnkd.in/dg-2kyf View in LinkedIn

ORGANIC MEAT IS NOT THE SOLUTION? "Grass-grazing cows emit considerably more methane than grain-fed cows. Pastured organic chickens have a 20 percent greater impact on global warming. If we raised all the cows in the United States on grass (all 100 million of them), cattle would require almost half the country’s land (and this figure excludes space needed for pastured chicken and pigs)."" " http://lnkd.in/dDginhy View in LinkedIn

GROWING ORGANIC FOOD MARKET is still only a tiny percent of world production. "As of 2001, the estimated market value of certified organic products was estimated to be $20 billion. By 2002 this was $23 billion and by 2007 more than $46 billion. By 2012 the market had reached $63 billion worldwide." Compared to $3.2 Trillion worldwide food market, a drop in the bucket. " " http://lnkd.in/dZ3qeDHhttp://lnkd.in/d_2JXRn View in LinkedIn

WORLDWIDE INDUSTRIAL FARMING. "The practice is widespread in developed nations. According to the Worldwatch Institute, as of 2006 74 percent of the world's poultry, 43 percent of beef, and 68 percent of eggs were produced this way."" " http://lnkd.in/dGN-cmD View in LinkedIn

GIANT MODERN CARNIVOROUS DIET. "Each Briton, on average, eats about 85kg of meat a year, which roughly translates into 33 chickens, one pig, three-quarters of a sheep and a fifth of a cow. This...accounts for why some 30 per cent of ice-free land in the world is used for growing food for animal livestock while just 4 per cent is used for crops destined for human consumption." (Americans eat over 200 pounds). " " http://lnkd.in/d-KqFJRhttp://lnkd.in/dT6VG5C View in LinkedIn

US FACTORY FOOD OMNIPRESENT. "When you take into account the fact that factory farms raise 99.9 percent of chickens for meat, 97 percent of laying hens, 99 percent of turkeys, 95 percent of pigs, and 78 percent of cattle currently sold in the United States, it’s shocking how much time we waste debating each other, rather than trying to actually change the system."" " http://lnkd.in/d2NQmhB View in LinkedIn

POLITICS IN LOCKSTEP WITH BIG-FOOD INDUSTRY."The number of cattle tested for mad cow disease has fallen almost 90 percent since 2005, according to U.S. Agriculture Department statistics, a drop that consumer groups say endangers America’s food supply."" " http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-25/testing-for-mad-cow-disease-falls-90-since-2005-usda-says.html View in LinkedIn

BEEF INDUSTRY LACK OF TRANSPARENCY has dogged the beef industry in recent years, famously illustrated by former US president George Bush proclaiming that it was "unscientific to test for mad cow disease." That decision cost a large Japanese contract." " http://lnkd.in/dmDtvCphttp://lnkd.in/dYEE-XA View in LinkedIn

IMPACT OF INDUSTRIAL FARMING. "Industrial livestock production is resource-hungry and carbon-intensive, depending on high inputs of global natural resources – energy, water and land. Livestock production takes up 30 per cent of the world’s useable land area and consumes a third of the global grain harvest. It also contributes approximately 18 per cent of global man-made greenhouse gas emissions."" " http://lnkd.in/d_ejCrm View in LinkedIn

INDUSTRIAL FACTORY FARMS. "Sixty billion farm animals are already used to produce food annually, the majority in industrial-scale factory farms. Policymakers now predict that meat production will double by 2050, potentially doubling the number of animals used to 120 billion a year. The majority of this growth will come from factory farms, which are increasing at six times the rate of traditional mixed farming systems."" " http://lnkd.in/d_ejCrm View in LinkedIn