Human population numbers questioned

[skjl47]

The other is the biological food pyramid as found in biology and ecology texts. Not the food pyramid of human nutrition recently turned upside down. The idea is if you skip feeding livestock you then can feed many more people. I will again use beef cattle. To raise beef cattle to market size it is estimated to take near ten pounds of feed for each pound of meat +bone + blood + whatever is harvested. So, if you feed the same grains to people, you can support something like ten times more people than with beef foods. (By the way my beef & beans is ready to eat.) I have to agree with this particular idea partially but not overall.

Hello; The end. finally.

 

[jjohnwm]

I don't doubt that more people can be "fed" if we treat them as livestock...rather than feeding them  on livestock which must in turn be fed on crops. We could probably make some entirely synthetic substitute food out of recycled cardboard or refined sewage or who-knows-what, allowing even greater efficiency. But at risk of sounding like an uncaring boor...so what?

I won't be eating the upcoming version of Soylent Green regardless of what...or who...it's made from.