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Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.

People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.

In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.

Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate.

As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.

In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.

We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.