“Growing grain for feed instead of food may be humanity’s greatest evil yet,” according to an article by Jeremy Rifkin published by the Los Angeles Times on 28 May 2002. Rifkin offers these two important facts, among others, to support his arguments: * Hundreds of millions of people are going hungry every day all over the world because much of the arable land is now being used to grow feed grain for animals rather than food grain for people. Grain-fed cattle, pigs, chicken and other livestock, in turn, are being consumed by the wealthiest people on the planet while the poor go hungry. * Today, more than 70% of the grain produced in the United States is fed to livestock, much of it to cattle. Unfortunately, cattle are energy guzzlers, considered by some to be the Cadillacs of farm animals. In the U.S., 157 million metric tons of cereal, legumes and vegetable protein suitable for human use are fed to livestock to produce 28 million metric tons of animal protein that humans consume annually.