Two billion more people could be fed every year if the world stopped feeding grain to factory-farmed animals, according to a new report published today by Compassion in World Farming.

The world could also free up farmland nearly equal the size of Mexico if the practice were to end.

Released on World Food Day, the findings reveal the extent to which factory farming has affected food supplies, as well as the inefficiencies that worsen global food waste.

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“It is simply scandalous that while hundreds of millions of people go hungry and we face a triple planetary crisis, we are allowing hundreds of millions of tonnes of food to be wasted every year by being fed to factory-farmed animals,” says Peter Stevenson, chief policy advisor at

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