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/^t/The only answer to the demographic avalanche and the instances of hunger in the world is a complete transformation of food-industry and food-habits from the ones presupposing meat-consumption to more economic vegetarian ones. The present system of the world's food industry based on high meat consumption constitutes an extreme example of prodigality of natural food resources. To obtain 1 kilogram of protein from animal produce one has to supply live-stock with 25 kilograms of protein obtained from vegetable produce, 50 per cent of which consist from the most valuable for man nutrients like soya, cereal, corn, and bran. To feed the hungry one has to assign the vegetable produce for direct nourishment of people not for fodder.