At a time when nearly a billion people suffer from chronic hunger, more than one-third of all the grain grown in the world is fed to cattle and other livestock. That’s enough to give every child, woman and man a meal a day.

At a time when nearly a billion people suffer from chronic hunger, more than one-third of all the grain grown in the world is fed to cattle and other livestock. That’s enough to give every child, woman and man a meal a day.

According to the Greenhouse Crisis foundation, if Americans were to reduce their meat intake by even 10% (one meal per week), the grain saved annually would be enough to feed all the people who starve to death each year worldwide.

Due to modern farming techniques hens are crammed into small cages; calves raised for veal are chained in narrow crates with no bedding or light; pigs are crowded and may never see outside their pen. The list of cruelties to animals is phenomenal. Killing animals for food is not a necessity; it is your CHOICE.