Veganism, solution to world hunger? Is it all it's cracked up to be?

A couple of interesting posts on the subject:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/09/11/animal-vegetable-or-e-o-wilson/

and a follow-up post.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/20/vegans-are-not-from-vegas/


There is a lot of data, and extrapolation from data in the two posts, but fascinating nonetheless.