About vegans

[bennyboy]

We could feed the world...right now.  Hunger is a human problem, but it;s a real problem, and the fact that we -could- doesn't eliminate the factors that lead to this failure.  The morbidly obese are less a factor in that than we imagine..because they're not actually eating food that would keep some other person from starving or suffering from malnutrition.  The obese are commonly malnourished themselves.  World hunger and morbid obesity aren't opposites, they're symptoms of the same problem.  

I know the obese in America often eat a lot of flour-based foods: cookies, waffles, and so on, and with a lot of high-fructose corn syrup. But all of these foods, while specifically if sent to African might only help them develop diabetes, if those lands were repurposed to produce high-protein varieties of soy, for example, you might actually be able to kill two birds with one stone.

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Probably, but..again, we'd need to develop more land.  It's there...the land exists.   We can do it.  We;d have to -stop- creeping ag land with suburban sprawl, too.  Takes a hell of along time for the earth to build soil, only takes a few hours for cement to dry.

Thanks to global warming, I suspect we're within a century of about 1/4 of the world's land being opened up to farming-- like. . . almost all of Canada and Russia, for example.  Not only that, all that permafrost tundra is probably extremely nutrient-rich (I'm guessing, I don't actually know that).