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Grain as a livestock feed is no longer tenable. Production of onSite and on-Demand green feed is a must. 

World hunger statistics are staggering: Over 1 billion people, over a sixth of the world’s population, are chronically undernourished. Between 700 and 800 million people lack sufficient income to obtain the basic necessities of life. An estimated twenty million people die annually due to hunger.

2. Children are particularly victimized by malnutrition. Three out of four people who die due to hunger are children. Over 8 percent of children in poorer countries die before their first birthday. According to a UNICEF report on the “State of the World’s Children”, a child dies of malnutrition or starvation every 2.3 seconds.

3. One important reason why many are starving today is that tremendous amount of grains are used to fatten animals for slaughter. It takes 8 to 12 pounds of grain to produce one pound of edible beef in a feedlot. Half of U.S. farm acreage is used to produce feed crops for livestock. Animal agriculture also requires tremendous inputs of chemical fertilizer and pesticides, irrigation water, and fuel - commodities which are becoming scarcer worldwide.

Harvard nutritionist Jean Mayer estimated that if just 10 percent of the worlds cattle were taken off grain, enough grain would be released to feed 60 million people.

The wealthy nations feed more grain to their livestock than the people of India and China (more than one-third of humanity) consume directly.