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apologies, hn, shadowbanned me for my reply. > What animals are fed soy beans, hopefully only pigs and not ruminants (grasses/seeds eaters)? 50% of worlds mea
by botexpert 10y ago
apologies, hn, shadowbanned me for my reply.
> What animals are fed soy beans, hopefully only pigs and not ruminants (grasses/seeds eaters)?
50% of worlds meat is raised using intensive animal agriculture. liquified soy for the chickens, fishmeal and soymeal for growth and finishing of livestock.
brazilian beef which is practically their biggest export, along with soy, eats it in ridiculous amounts, so long amazon rainforest.
given the amount of energy that is put in the process for producing meat and dairy, it's ridiculously huge compared to what can be done with the land in other way. most efficient production is of chicken flesh and that's already being done on ridiculous scale (about 50 billion of chickens every year in USA - other issues appear then).
IMO raising 60 billion land animals for food, given our current technological, moral and materialistic status is highly irrational, irresponsible, inefficient and ridiculous.
- dualogy 10y ago> given the amount of energy that is put in the process for producing meat and dairy, it's ridiculously huge compared to what can be done with the land in other way That's the case for all industrial-age agriculture at today's 7-billion-people scale anyway. With average mixed diet, it costs 10kcal (whether fossil fuels or renewables) energy expenditure for every 1kcal of food energy. Isolated (or ancestral) immediate-return hunter-gatherers (roaming anywhere prey game abounds) average 10kcals of food energy gained for 1kcal energy expenditure invested. So that lifestyle gives 100x better ROI. But it's not for this today's world, because at the top of the food chain "we"'d rather soon feed most/all humans food barely fit for animal feed (grains and soymeal etc) than "guide our reproduction more wisely".