Understanding World Food-Fuel Crisis

[xveganxcowboyx]

The biggest point in that article is something I've been saying for a long, long time. People don't realize how how resource heavy producing meat is. It takes a lot more resources to create the average american/western diet than it does to supply one without meat. For most resources the difference is about 10 fold. When less than 1/5 of the worlds population was eating that diet we could just barely get by resource-wise, but when a huge part of the world starts becoming able and willing to consume more meat and thus increasing their impact 5 to ten times, there will be a dramatic effect on both the environment and world economy.