The truth is, livestock operations set up in poor countries displace indigenous agriculture, forests and farmers and pollute the water and land while introducing Western diets that are notoriously unhealthy. Obesity and diabetes often follow. Scratch the surface of "feed the world" campaigns and you often find Big Food/biotech seeking new markets for their chemicals, pesticides, GMO seeds, fertilizer and animal drugs. (You also find Big Pharma seeking markets for high cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes and GERD medicines.)
Luckily, there are plenty of charities, some found on A Well Fed World, that address world hunger without subjecting poor people to new expenses and animal borne diseases for foods that are not even healthy or appropriate for them.
(Article changed on October 31, 2017 at 15:21)
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