veganism: A vegan friend lectured to me how her lifestyle has global benefits like solving world hunger.|||No, it does not. Capitalism, not meat/dairy consumption, is the reason for world hunger. There are enough resources in the world right now to feed (and house, and clothe) every man, woman and child on the planet, and then some. But the people who are starving can't have any of it - because they haven't got any money. They can't afford it. Simple and obscene as that. Over the years various food lakes and mountains of food have been destroyed because they couldn't turn a profit. Destroyed rather than given away, that is. Everybody deciding to give up meat, dairy and eggs wouldn't change the behaviour of the powerful few responsible for such obscenities. I'm a vegan, by the way.|||why not build a hydroponic garden that is powered by solar or wind energy. Report Abuse |||This seems to be the only place on this page that I can add a comment now but I'd like to ask Ttaryn if she would like to be part of the general population who do not have such a compassionate mentality or the minority who care. We all have choices! Report Abuse |||From a logic standpoint, to feed cows, pigs, chickens, etc. you have to feed them grain/grass. The animal is either fed this food via a bin, or they graze. In both cases, that food for the animals takes up space, space that could be used to grow plants for humans rather than animals. You also have to feed these animals a lot more food, pound for pound, than what you get out of the animal. For example, it takes about 16 pounds of grain to get 1 pound of beef. That is extremely inefficient. If we just fed humans those 16 pounds of grain instead, a lot more people could eat. In addition to straight food, it takes a lot of energy (oil) and water to raise animals for consumption. That being said, there are other aspects of world hunger besides the lack of food/famine. Political situations of a country, transportation (not every location is ideal for growing food), lack of funds, etc. However, it would definitely be a step in the right direction. Hope that helps!|||Nothing will probably solve world hunger. Would veg*nism help? Yes it would. 90% of the soy grown in the world goes to feed livestock. About 70% of the US's corn goes to livestock. "The USDA and the United Nations state that using an acre of land to raise cattle yields 20 pounds of usable protein. If soybeans were grown instead, that same acre would yield 356 pounds of protein. Animal agriculture also wastes valuable water resources. Population biologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich note that a pound of wheat can be grown with 60 gallons of water, whereas a pound of meat requires 2,500 to 6,000 gallons." You don't have to go vegan, though. Just cutting back on meat helps.|||The argument for that case is that if the land/resources that was used to raise livestock was instead used for vegetables/crops, there would be enough of those resources to abolish world hunger. Unfortunately this is not a realistic goal at this point in time. In general, people's mentality does not seem to support that kind of selflessness (even if it just means not eating meat).|||Oh those vegans... Always so quick to lecture the omnivores and always so quick to feed their newborns nutrient deficient diets (and almost kill them) because they think they are so right! With the exception of religious diets; (Hinduism, Judaism etc..) all people (vegans included) will eat ANYTHING if you starve them. Americans are lucky to have the option to not eat meat. I think something like 97% of all Americans have never experienced TRUE hunger. We know squat about starvation. Your vegan friend included. Terra-forming and climate control are our only viable options at this particular juncture. So, no, vegans and vegetarians do not have or know the solution to the world's hunger crisis.|||Assuming that there would be some way to transport said goods, yes, because of the inefficiency of producing animal products: According to the USDA, growing the crops necessary to feed farmed animals requires nearly half of the United States' water supply and 80 percent of its agricultural land. Additionally, animals raised for food in the U.S. consume 90 percent of the soy crop, 80 percent of the corn crop, and a total of 70 percent of its grain. http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/sb9… When tracking food animal production from the feed trough to consumption, the inefficiencies of meat, milk and egg production range from 4:1 up to 54:1 energy input to protein output ratio. This firstly because the feed first needs to be grown before it is eaten by the cattle, and secondly because warm-blooded vertebrates need to use a lot of calories just to stay warm (unlike plants or insects). http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articl… Ecology professor David Pimentel has claimed, "If all the grain currently fed to livestock in the United States were consumed directly by people, the number of people who could be fed would be nearly 800 million." http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Aug…|||right now there is enough food for everyone on the whole planet it is just economic and political barriers and greed that prevent everyone from having enough.\however veganism is considerably more eco-friendly even with these palm-harvest/bio-diesel issues.|||The amount of food and water used to raise livestock each year is enough to supply the world population several times over, if distributed properly. It may not be the healthiest diet (mostly grains probably) but it would be enough.|||It does because it takes less to feed people veggies than it does to feed them meat. It also helps global warming.|||Has world hunger been solved yet? If not, I don't know how we can make that claim.|||It Absolutely does NOT! But misguided vegans would like you to think it does. The world already has enough food. Meat and produce alike. Some countries don't have enough money to buy it. Other countries don't have the proper climate or soil to grow it. Nor do they have the money. Meat has NOTHING to do with world hunger. Any vegan that says it does is misinformed. If it doesn't glorify the vegan lifestyle it doesn't come out of their mouth.|||Not at all, though some dumbass keeps putting this whole list of vegan propaganda that makes that ridiculous claim on a lot of the traffic light poles in my city.|||Yes. Raising animals for food has utterly decimated Earth. Don't listen to Deer Hunter or Cliff.