IT’S LIKELY A set of numbers that social justice warriors mumble in their sleep, but even should they happen to be a bit off, the statistics that relate to food – and especially meat – production and consumption is pretty alarming. The world population currently stands at 7.9 billion. According to the World Economic Forum, the number of people on Earth has doubled in the last 50 years, but the amount of meat consumed has tripled. Some 50 billion chickens are slaughtered each year for food, along with 1.5 billion pigs and 300 million heads of cattle; we consumed 150 million tonnes of seafood in 2016.
It’s not all bad. According
