While the H1N1 pandemic is serious and merits all the attention it is receiving, an even greater health crisis persists with sooooo much less urgent attention: world hunger. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reports that the number of hungry worldwide has grown of late by 100 million to 1 billion, almost one in six people in the world: news.bbc.co.uk/. . . /8109698.stm/
www.fao.org/. . . /item/20568/icode /
www.fao.org/. . . /index_en.htm

Many deaths result directly or indirectly from the world’s unequal distribution of food. This inequality occurs in part because of all the food that goes to feed the non-human animals whom we eat. If humans could reduce our meat consumption (sadly, the global figure continues to rise), there would be even more food for those without food.
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