Animals are 80% of farmland but 20% of food calories. And 40% of habitable land.
Animals are 80% of farmland but 20% of food calories. And 40% of habitable land
Aiden Gray
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Elijah Martinez
Have you never driven in the country? There is wayyy more corn than pasture. I assume that figure is including huge cattle ranges out west, which is basically just wild prairie.
Nathan Ortiz
Most of that corn is animal feed, not human feed
Luke Foster
Give me a solution instead of complaining about the infrastructure that I didn't build and blaming it on my consumption of the resulting convenient option
Blake Lopez
If less people ate meat, less meat would be produced and more farmland would move towards producing plants for human consumption. We live in a capitalist system, your purchases directly affect what gets produced.
Robert Collins
one reason to go vegan, although not the main one. the main one is still animal suffering of course.
Leo King
I was on Any Forums and saw the gdp thing now it makes practical sense, liberals just suck up the wealth, destiny was right, more than racial it's just city vs rural that dictates politics a lot.
Ian Clark
You are an absolute moron. The acreage used for cattle pasture is of too low quality to be useful for crop production, and most of it is so arid that it's only useful for cattle pasture intermittently.
You have the cause and effect backwards. You think that cattle pasture is crowding out more productive uses of the land, when it's actually the exact opposite. The widespread pasturing of cattle in the US is a market MAXIMIZATION, where a use was found for low-quality land that otherwise would have lain fallow and produced no human calories at all. That maximization succeeded so spectacularly that the American diet adjusted itself around it, but it started out with ranchers trying to find a use for land that had no other use.
You might think it would be better if that land were fallow, and that is a separate discussion. But don't pretend it could be used for crop production, because it couldn't be.
Jordan Foster
Most of pasture is not suitable for agriculture
Matthew Morales
A significant chunk of land is devoted to growing animal feed. That same land could be used to feed humans directly.
Andrew Stewart
>if people
You mean if person. You're talking to me. What is the actionable solution on the scale of one person that will fix or alleviate this industry wide problem you're blaming me for. Do you honestly think that a lifetime of veganism from this point will make a scratch in the way food corporations work? And even if you say yes, then the question becomes why is it my problem? I have nothing, no one, and no loyalty to anything, not even concepts or ideas. I assume this is the case for a lot of people on here. This is a result not of how the system has treated me but how you and your kind (people with things, people with people, people with loyalty and fixations) have treated me. Why are you going to me instead of trying to change the system?
Cooper Morales
I mean do what you want m8. I don't give a shit. I don't think OP was directing the thread to you personally. I was just explaining how individual contributions would reduce the amount of land devoted to raising animals.
Benjamin Taylor
Humans can't live without animal products. Emphasis on the "humans" part. You are welcome to eat your daily vitamin supliments though. Next time you do, mix in a 9mm bullet in your onions cocktail, faggot.
Henry Peterson
Carter Williams
okay individually give me money and i'll do it.
where's the compensation for all this bullshit people want all of a sudden? start paying. money talks. people don't do shit for no reason unless it's not work.
Leo Cook
Why in fuck would you answer a question for OP as if you were OP?
>I was just explaining how individual contributions would reduce the amount of land devoted to raising animals.
More than a corporations margin of error they write off anyway?
Oliver Mitchell
>Humans can't live without animal products.
Horseshit.
Oliver Hughes
There are canned beans if you dont know how to boil water(beans)
Jose Morales
Holy shit! Only 20 percent? We need to eat more meat.
Josiah Evans
>Why in fuck would you answer a question for OP as if you were OP?
Are you new here? And that post wasn't even directed at OP. Go look at it.
>More than a corporations margin of error they write off anyway?
Any amount of chronic decrease in consumption will drop production, yes
>okay individually give me money and i'll do it.
I just told you that I don't care about what you do. It would be cheaper to not eat meat anyway though. Compare meat to oats, legumes, or other grains on a calorie matched basis.
Robert Mitchell
We have far more farmable, usable land right now than is needed to support the entire human population.
Anthony White
Synthetic meat tubes