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They make 75 tonnes of meat per year on 3500 acre. Unless I am missing something, this is really not helping the world. This would amount to something like 0.0
by tomtomtom777 8y ago
They make 75 tonnes of meat per year on 3500 acre.
Unless I am missing something, this is really not helping the world. This would amount to something like 0.05 million calories/acre/year.
If I compare that to others (http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/Calories_per_acre_for_various_foods/ http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/Calories_per_acre_for_vario...) this doesn't seem like a realistic way to feed the global population.
- J-dawg 8y agoGeorge Monbiot's comment on the article [0] basically makes the same point. If all meat farming was done this way, optimised for environmental impact and animal welfare, there simply wouldn't be space for it. We'd all have no choice but to eat a lot less meat. The resulting diet would be something a lot closer to veganism / vegetarianism than most people's idea of a "normal" meat-eating diet. We are only able to eat the quantities of meat that are currently considered normal by treating animals like shit and harming the environment in the process. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/veganism-intensively-farmed-meat-dairy-soya-maize#comment-119748600 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/vegani...