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“So what’s not right about food? Based on an analysis of Earth’s resources, our planet should be able to sustain 11 billion people on a vegetarian diet, said Joel Cohen, a population expert at the Rockefeller University. But among the current population of 7 billion, ‘a billion of those are hungry’ already, he said. One of the reasons he sees is that humans are sharing their agricultural grains with livestock as well as machines (in the form of feedstock for biofuel conversion). ‘We’re using less than half of the cereal we grow to feed humans,’ Cohen said.”