Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.
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As people move further away from a meat-based diet, I think the focus will shift to using grains as the central focus of our food supply.
The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.
I have not been able to get any grain yet. It is all in the country, and the people talk instead of working.
There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
If we went back to the basics of vegetables, legumes, grains - the things closer to the Earth - it's a lot better for the Earth and for other people. We can feed more people, we can feed the starving people.
No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.
We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.
Food is sort of like the Jewish sense of humor, a defense mechanism. It is one of the things that helped the Jews survive through 2,000 years of an often very harsh Diaspora.
Turkeys are perfect for feeding larger gatherings.
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.
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