Why feed grain to animals when people are starving?
The notion that meat production in Canada uses food needed in Third World countries is simply false. Livestock do not compete with people for food grains. In fact, they help support the production of grains and act like a food bank. In countries without excess grain supplies, animal feed tends to consist mostly of grasses and forages or other suitable feedstuffs. Farm animals, moreover, generally receive feed corn and barley, while humans eat mainly wheat and rice. Animals can also consume pest-or weather damaged grains; crop residues such as corn stalks, leaves and straw; and byproducts from food processing such as unusable grains (or parts of grains) left over from the production of things like breakfast cereals. Hunger today is usually the result of political, economic and distribution problems, not the lack of productive capacity. Globally, there is now more food per person available than ever before. Yet even in Canada, where food is abundant, some people still don’t have enough t
