IMMINENT GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS

Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies , saying that the world’s population have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the coming 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages. Humans derived about 20% of their protein from animal based products now, but this may need to drop to just 5% to feed the extra 2 billion people expected to be alive by 2050. Dire warnings of water scarcity limiting food production come as Oxfam and the UN prepare for a possible second global food crisis in 5 years.

Prices for staples such as corn and wheat have risen nearly 50% on international markets since June. More than 18 million people are already facing serious food shortages across the globe.

Hence, adopting a vegetarian diet is one option to increase the amount of water available to grow more food in an increasingly climate erratic world. Animal protein rich food consumes 5 to 10 times more water than a vegetarian diet. 

One third of the world’s arable land is used to grow crops to feed animals. “Nine hundred million people already go hungry and 2 billion people are malnourished in spite of the fact that per capita food production continues to increase, “they said. “With 70% of all available water being in agriculture, growing more food to feed an additional 2 billion people by 2050 will place greater pressure on available water and land. 

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