Factory farms aren’t just cruel — they’re the world’s biggest food-wasters. According to a new report from Compassion in World Farming, industrial animal agriculture squanders more edible grain than any other form of food waste — fueling deforestation, hunger, and a climate crisis we can’t afford to ignore. The report found that factory farms waste 766 million tons of grain each year by feeding it to animals, which exceeds the quantity of food discarded by households, restaurants, or supermarkets. However, this figure isn’t even a measure of all the grain fed to animals, but rather reflects the inefficiency of converting plant
An extra two billion people could be fed every year and land around the size of Mexico would be freed up to grow food for people if we ended the feeding of grain to factory farmed animals, according to a new report by Compassion in World Farming. Coming soon after World Food day, the report claims […]