As millions of Americans are about to go hungry due to the US government refusing to fund SNAP, just remember that only two countries voted against making food a basic human right. The US and the terrorist colony of Israel
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Not true. We currently produce around 1.5x the amount of food necessary to feed every person on the planet a 2500 calorie a day diet. The issue is, and always has been, logistics.
Logistics and desire. Food gets thrown away into locked dumpsters and crops rot in warehouses because someone couldn’t make a buck on it. The cruelty is the point.
You're technically correct, and that is what I meant, which should be pretty clearly inferred by me saying that we are growing so much food to feed to other animals when we "don't have enough to feed everyone". I meant we don't have enough food AVAILABLE to feed everyone BECAUSE (among other factors such as overconsumption) we are feeding so much to other animals. I didn't say we aren't producing enough to begin with, we are, obviously since we are feeding 80 billion land animals a year.
So I agree the issue is somewhat related to logistics/distribution, but you have to look at the logistics and distribution that happens WITHIN the means of production as well, or rather resource allocation, since we are allocating/distributing so much of the food we make to feed other animals (who don't even need to be mass bred/exploited/killed) rather than feeding the world's hungry humans, and the other animals that exist if they need our help to eat.
With a plant-based system we can feed many more humans, I am reflecting actual scientific consensus, whereas you are reflecting societal knee jerk reactions to the suggestion that there's a critical change we can make as individuals to help animals and the planet and ourselves. As usual, the majority are on the wrong side of history to begin, until they aren't. And yes, it is an insane moral atrocity we are doing to animals as well, but I am deliberately not talking about that because I am talking about completely objective science and just showing how people who claim to care about the environment or food security but still support animal agriculture are complete hypocrites.
https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets