Count me in on that steak, but yeah, the primary problem is supply and demand. With medical facilities in the western world constantly improving and continued aid to 'Third world' nations, as well as the growing populations of the 'Second world' nations we are outgrowing our own supply. Compounding this problem is the 'First World' nations steadily growing elderly population, so people are living longer as well as producing offspring at a continued rate, death rates are down, but birth rates are unchanged, and diseases are contained easier (for the most part) than before. So the only thing left to rebalance populations is human events (war) or natural events (earthquakes, volcanos) but in this age, we are predicting natural events with enough time to save lives, and trying to reduce the number of wars.
All good things morally, but it increases the population, and at the same time, environmental concerns (be it through natural or man-made events) are also effecting the food production rate.
Still, such a trend cannot continue indefinately, so we'll either create crops which produce more food, find a way to create food from other resources (replicators?), have a large scale natural disaster to lower population levels or suffer a global famine, but probably only after several largescale wars over food supply.
And to be frank, going veggie won't do a bloody thing.
So, I'll have some fries with my steak please Aramike
