This comes up all the time. And it’s not only silly, but offensive, in that the answer is simple, and has profound implications for suffering and the future of our planet, and yet the person asking this question is clearly lazy about something moral and practical that the asker is doing three plus times a day.

The answer’s obvious, and clear:

We’re chopping down rainforests to raise cattle and crops. Read more here.

Enough grain is currently produced globally to feed two times as many people as there are on Earth. Seventy-seven percent of coarse grains and over 90 percent of soy grown in the world is fed to livestock. Another source claims that we produce enough calories to feed 10 to 11 billion people worldwide. With the majority of grains used to feed livestock. Read more here.