Year: 2022

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

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

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

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

WORLD HUNGER. "The world has long produced enough calories, around 2,700 per day per human, more than enough to meet the United Nations projection of a population of nine billion in 2050, up from the current seven billion. There are hungry people not because food is lacking, but because not all of those calories go to feed humans (a third go to feed animals, nearly 5 percent are used to produce biofuels, and as much as a third is wasted, all along the food chain)."" " http://lnkd.in/dRh9Tjf View in LinkedIn

FOOD DEMAND TO RISE. "Between now and 2050 the world's population will rise by a third, but demand for agricultural goods will rise by 70% and demand for meat will double."" " http://lnkd.in/dg-2kyf View in LinkedIn

DISINVESTMENT IN AGRICULTURE."For most of the past 25 years, investment in agriculture has declined relentlessly. In 2005 most developing countries were investing only around 5% of public revenues in farming. The share of Western aid going to agriculture fell by around three-quarters between 1980 and 2006."" " http://lnkd.in/dg-2kyf View in LinkedIn

DOUBLING FOOD PRODUCTION is not the answer to feeding the world according to a Tufts University report. The issue is inadequate access to food, according to the report, which cites flawed assumptions in the call to double food supply. http://lnkd.in/dwjjAaihttp://lnkd.in/dg-2kyf View in LinkedIn

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL? "The industrial food chain uses 70 percent of agricultural resources to provide 30 percent of the world’s food, whereas what ETC calls “the peasant food web” produces the remaining 70 percent using only 30 percent of the resources."" " http://lnkd.in/dRh9Tjf View in LinkedIn

WINSTON CHURCHILL predicted synthetic meat. "We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium. Synthetic food will, of course, also be used in the future. Nor need the pleasures of the table be banished."" " http://lnkd.in/d2H8CnE View in LinkedIn