It will be exacerbated by the increasing wealthy in countries like China who are starting to crave "western" diets with more meat!

The cost of providing this meat will cost the environment more and more as more of our land is used for raising animals and their food.

Unless there are some sacrifices made, and some examples set, feeding people meat will be like ripping up the floor-boards of the house to keep warm!

We cannot afford our livestock industries as it is.

Our own Murray Darling river is suffering from over-use.

Until our diets become part of climate change strategies, and more people make the sacrifice to reduce animal-based products, the situation will become more and more drastic.

With animal farming there are those who say we should let all animals roam free in their natural habitat.

It sounds good but it's a fact that humans have relied on animal in one form or another since the dawn of time, for clothing and food.

Who is going to go and tell a lion or dingo they can't hunt any more cause it's inhumane?

Some People also get the wrong idea when we use fertilizers, herbicides and fungicides.

These products are needed sometimes to produce a decent crop.

Most farmers want to look after their land for the future generations, because farmers are essential for the world's future.

Without farmers it's every one for themselves.

We need to trust the farmers.

They have been doing it the longest and know what they are doing.

It's the insidious encroachment of chemical, agribusiness companies misleading good honest people (farmers) about the real effects of the use of GM and Glyphosates(however it's spelt) - eg. supposedly bio-degradable and many other instances.

No one with an ounce of sense wants to see all the animals currently bred for food let loose.

I agree that humans have relied on animals in one form or another for clothing and food for many years – though our consumption of meat has rocketed in the last century.

What we need to do is gradually move away from that reliance.

We need to gradually change to a society built more on the use of plant foods and fibres.

This will not result in unwanted animals roaming free – they will not be bred. They will not exist.

Farmers will adjust to a shrinking demand.

What lions or dingos do is entirely irrelevant. They have no choice.

They, as far as we know, have no capacity to choose.

We humans can and must decide to stop exploiting our fellow earthlings.

It is inhumane, it is destroying our environment and it is massively inefficient.

I agree that the world is entering an even worse crisis than we have been creating since WW1, and that we are facing a fuel and food catastrophe for our present way of life and population levels.

but let's not confuse this with being an unbiased study!!

it's the first level response to negative media, driven, not by concern for lil ol' us, but the bottom line --$ profit.

If not, perhaps we could introduce them to Tagasaste tree lucerne.

The stuff grows anywhere and you can run 2 cows per acre all year round on it.

Maybe better if you increase its density.

Only needs a small dose of fertiliser each year to keep it tasting fresh otherwise it tastes rank.