In western countries people 1 or 2 live humans worth of meat per year. Taking that food out of hungry human mouths to feed animals in cages.
"while the human population growth rate has fallen to 1.05 percent a year,[100] the growth rate of the livestock population has risen to 2.4 percent a year.[101] By 2050, to put it in brutal terms, the extra humans on the planet will weigh a little over 100 million tons, whereas, unless the current trend is disrupted, the extra farm animals will weigh 400 million tons.[102] The biggest population crisis is not the growth in human numbers, but the growth in livestock numbers.
This escalating pressure is caused by Bennett’s Law, which states that the consumption of fat and protein rises with people’s incomes.[103] On average, the world’s people eat 43 kilograms of meat per year.[104] In the UK, we eat a little more than our average adult bodyweight: 82 kg. U.S. citizens eat on average 118 kg per year."
From "Feeding the World" by George Monbiot
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