I've just read a really interesting article by the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18813075 about the upcoming food shortages and how we are possibly going to cope with them. The issue of food running out is already becoming a public issue here in the UK, supermarkets and markets have been fighting over the price of milk and celebrity chefs are doing the best to get people to use the bits of meat that are usually thrown away. The BBC have come up with a few solutions to the problem, including growing meat in a test tube and farming insects, all of which scientists are currently wasting thousands of pounds to test. The answer has been there all along, if everybody adopted a more plant-based, organic diet, we wouldn't have to worry about running out of food for a long time yet.
Oh, and if anyone from the BBC reads this the answer is no, a vegetarian could not eat meat from a test tube. It's still meat, there are many reasons for being vegetarian, and even if it was just about hurting the animal you still have to get the initial sample from a cow in the first place.
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