In their June 2009 issue, National Geographic had a special report on food called, "The End of Plenty: Special Report: The Global Food Crisis."
The whole article can be found here. If you don't have time to read the really long article, look at the picture gallery which tells the story pretty well.
Fun Facts (or just scary):
The corn used to make a 25-gallon tank of ethanol would feed one person for a year.
35% of the world's grain is used to feed livestock instead of people.
The United States' per capita meat consumption is more than twice as high as China's.
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Pyramid of Energy = only 10% of energy remains as you move from one step of a food chain to the next. Perhaps it would be better to help developing countries with rice, soybeans, and other vegetable products supplies than meat. How do people feel about Colin Davis' remarks about the possibility about cutting back on our consumption of meat?
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