Food Concerns From the Horses Mouth

I have taken care to include whole quotes as I find them. Accordingly, if you pay attention you may find a sentence that if removed would have made the statement far more demeaning to certain people and to the food industry in general. Because I believe in keeping things in relative context though, I have avoided this entirely. Therefore, these statements are as issued.
(3 Quotations)

• M. E. Ensminger, Ph.D. (internationally recognized animal agriculture specialist, former Department of Animal Science Chairman at Washington State University, President of Consultants-Agriservices) - ""There can be no question that more hunger can be alleviated with a given quantity of grain by completely eliminating animals [from the food production process]. About 2,000 pounds of concentrates [grains] must be supplied to livestock in order to produce enough meat and other livestock products to support a person for a year, whereas 400 pounds of grain (corn, wheat, rice, soybeans, etc.) eaten directly will support a person for a year. Thus, a given quantity of grain eaten directly will feed 5 times as many people as it will if it is first fed to livestock and then is eaten indirectly by humans in the form of livestock products..."

• John McFarlane (Executive Director, The Council for Livestock Protection, a meat industry organization) - "The amount of meat lost each year through careless handling and brutality would be enough to feed a million Americans for a year."

• National Pork Producers Council – "Soybeans - a legume crop, native to the Orient, used mainly in the United States for high protein feed and oil." [Great, then we don't need meat for protein]