Food Security
- Eating a vegetarian diet, or at least reducing meat consumption, is perhaps the single most important thing people in Western Countries can do to alleviate food and water shortage in developing countries. Next to the land taken up by farms, which could often be used more efficiently for edible crops, 600million tons of the total 1700 million tons of worldwide food crops go to the meat industry as feed for the animals. Such feed often comes from developing nations where the local population do not have enough to eat. 45% of worldwide grain production goes to animal feed, and 33% of worldwide fish catches are used for the meat industry in the northern hemisphere alone. As an example, 1kg of red meat produced in industrial farms requires roughly 15kg of grain, soy, fishmeal and other plant-based food, as well as roughly the monthly water consumption of two families in Holland, and the electrical energy required to produce the same 1kg of red meat (electrical energy) could produce 40kg of soy crops.
Milieu-Effekten (Dutch)
Meat wastes natural resources (English)
Hoe de vee-industrie bijdraagt aan de wereldwijde milieu- en voedselcrisis (Dutch)
- Between 1950 and 2000 the world population doubled, while total meat consumption increased by 5 times!!
Eerlijk over vlees (Dutch)
- The following guidelines indicates the amount of food currently available per person per day, allowing all 11 billion people to be fed. There is also a meat variety, reducing the amounts of other products to allow for the additional resources required to produce meat.
Wereldmaaltijd (Dutch only - English translation on request)
See Recipes to start the evolution
Milieu-Effekten (Dutch)
Meat wastes natural resources (English)
Hoe de vee-industrie bijdraagt aan de wereldwijde milieu- en voedselcrisis (Dutch)
- Between 1950 and 2000 the world population doubled, while total meat consumption increased by 5 times!!
Eerlijk over vlees (Dutch)
- The following guidelines indicates the amount of food currently available per person per day, allowing all 11 billion people to be fed. There is also a meat variety, reducing the amounts of other products to allow for the additional resources required to produce meat.
Wereldmaaltijd (Dutch only - English translation on request)
See Recipes to start the evolution