It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to…

Jeremy Rifkin
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It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring the over-population of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat. ✨ Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture. Book by Jeremy Rifkin, 1992.
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