Re:Captain Obvious breaks it down again (Score 1)

The article linked talks about an anti-body (anti-viral) resistant strain, the name is just a typo. This is hopefully obvious to most readers. But they popped up before and will still pop up if we abandoned it. This is true, but the point is that if we continue as we are now, they will become much more frequent and deadly. Also, as Gregor discusses in the book, many of the diseases we had grown accustomed to (and in large part eradicated by the 70's) actually come not from industrializing meat, but by domesticating animals in the first place. He blames industrializing meat for an explosion of new viruses. And, as eluded to by the other replies, most of the food in the world is eaten by animals, if they didn't exist and we continued to grow the same amount, we would have more, not less food. Starvation is largely a social, economic, and political problem.