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I’m talking about that the society as a whole will produce less food if we all would go vegan.
by fetbaffe 6y ago
I’m talking about that the society as a whole will produce less food if we all would go vegan.
- mac01021 6y agoIt would be a big change for sure, but maybe less of a problem than you imagine: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-calories-from-animal-protein-vs-gdp-per-capita https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-calories-from-an... Also there's the fact that, per calorie, producing beef requires an order of magnitude more arable land than producing <insert-your-favorite-vegetable-here>, since cattle eat so much more than humans do.
- fetbaffe 6y agoSee my reply here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24514430 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24514430
- 3131s 6y agoOnly a small percentage of US beef production is grass fed and worldwide grazing systems supply about 9 percent of the world's production of beef, the rest are crop fed in addition! https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-million-people-grain-livestock-eat https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-m... https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aad401 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aad401