Animal capture in the US alone requires enough agricultural land for feed that the world's hunger problem (815M [0]) could be virtually erased by using that exi

Animal capture in the US alone requires enough agricultural land for feed that the world's hunger problem (815M [0]) could be virtually erased by using that existing farm land for plant agriculture (800M in 1997 [1]). The tropical deforestation cycle is generally understood as: new roads lead to new accessible timber land. That land is then logged legally and illegally and abandoned. Hunger issues push sustenance farmers to slash-and-burn the cleared and abandoned areas for animal agriculture. So, indeed, unless cotton and coffee and sugar behaviors can feasibly resolve hunger issues, it does make sense to focus on animal agriculture. [0] https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/world-hunger-facts-statistics https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/world-hunger-facts-stati... [1] http://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-million-people-grain-livestock-eat http://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-mi...