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Though the human consumption of farmed animal products (FAPs) is rising at an unprecedented rate, the number of undernourished people exceeds 1 billion. FAPs can provide nutritional benefits, but their human health impacts, particularly how their consumption affects the health of others, have hardly been recognized. In this article the question of whether or not the consumption of FAPs causes human hunger is explored. A survey of the direct and indirect negative human health impacts is provided to shed light on this issue. Because the farm animal sector (FAS) facilitates the emergence and spread of a large number of human diseases and produces a wide range of indirect human health impacts associated with land use and degradation, water use and pollution, and fossil fuel use and atmospheric pollution, the consumption of some FAPs is associated with an increase in stressors that cause human hunger …