by John Robbins, an author widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on the intimate link between diet and environmental and personal health.

Every time you eat a hamburger you are having a relationship with thousands of people you never met. Not just people at the supermarket or fast food restaurant but possibly World Bank officials in Washington, D.C., and peasants from Central and South America. And many of these people are hungry. The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world’s food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock—food for the well-off—while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.

Children in Bangladesh who are so underfed and underweight that their health is diminished: 56 percent (33)

Adults in United States who are so overfed and overweight that their health is diminished: 55 percent (34)