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World Vegan Day

Proceeding contribution from Chris Williamson (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 1 November 2011. It occurred during Adjournment debate on World Vegan Day.
Does my hon. Friend agree that the case for eating less meat or becoming vegan is reinforced by the fact that major companies are buying up vast tracts of land in developing nations to grow grain for animals, displacing subsistence farmers from their land? When 2 billion people on this planet are going hungry every night, would it not be better to use the food that we produce more efficiently by feeding it directly to human beings, rather than to animals, which is an inefficient way of using land?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
534 c896 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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