Yahoo! News - Eat the Old: Could Mass Cannibalism Solve a Future Food Shortage?
Yahoo! News reports: "There has yet to be a Malthusian crisis – named after English scholar Thomas Malthus' 1798 idea that humankind would outstrip its food production – even as the world's population has quadrupled since 1900. Yet rapidly ramping up food production, while preserving the environment, will be a major challenge, especially with the added x-factor of climate change."