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Study: Food Production Must Double in 30 Years

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The world will need to double food production within the next three decades in order to feed a rapidly growing and increasingly affluent population. A United Nations report says reaching that goal will require major increases in intensive, high-efficiency livestock operations for both meat and dairy production. The report concedes that intensive livestock operations can pose serious ecological risks. And that's why environmental critics are calling instead for reductions in global livestock production, and urging people to consume less, not more, meat in their diets. Producer Zulima Palacio has the story.

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  • More than half the world will need to go vegan in order to feed the population. If the population grow to 9 billion where will everyone live? If we blanket the earth with people there will be no space left for farm animals which means people will naturally gravitate towards veganism as it should be.

  • RAISE FISH in more Fish farms there is more protein eatable food per an acer then Beef It was proven in the 1960s but some of the key producers dead With no one willing to Continue with the production 

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