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Most food produced is fed to livestock. There are ten captive animals who never go hungry for every human being. If we can feed all of them no matter what, we could certainly feed human beings if we chose to.
Ah, so we just need to feed all the humans like livestock, problem solved!
From context I gather that you think that would be bad, but for the life of me I cannot see what you think the problem is. An acre of fertile farm is an acre of fertile farm (largely).
If we simply stopped feeding that food to livestock, we would be so overwhelmed with food at current production levels, it would be less than worthless. We would have to cut production several fold. We would have massive crop surpluses for industry and consumer products.
Though the farms world need to start growing different crops...
Very different. The extent of the infrastructure changes that would be required to switch a large system from producing and distributing feedstock for animals to produce for humans would be massive.
I'm not saying that that is insurmountable, just that it's not simple.
It's a fucking thought experiment. It clearly demonstrates that we do not lack the capacity to feed every human on earth. The proposal is not to literally feed humans like livestock.