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Australia’s Beef Industry Impacted by Drought
Australia's US$3.5 billion beef cattle industry has been greatly affected by drought, which has driven record high grain prices. "It's very bad. There wouldn't be a feedlot making money now," said Malcolm Foster, president of the Australian Lotfeeders Association.
To read the full article please visit Australia Beef Crisis Hits as Drought Decimates Wheat
Jesus preached, “For I was hungry and you gave me food.… [A]s you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me” (Matt. 25:35, 40 RSV). Animal agriculture is a very inefficient way to produce food for humans. It takes up to 10 pounds of wheat to produce 1 pound of beef. Many of the world poor and hunger could have access to more grains if half of the world grains weren’t fed to farmed animals. In the US 66% of all the grains go to feed farmed animals.
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