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Feeding animals for slaughter requires an order of magnitude more plant destruction, simply for the fact that you're passing those plants through another trophi
by Forbo 5y ago
Feeding animals for slaughter requires an order of magnitude more plant destruction, simply for the fact that you're passing those plants through another trophic level. If humans were to eat the soy that is typically used for feed, that would be a massive amount of harm reduction if you want to take into account the idea of "plant suffering".
- soperj 5y ago>Feeding animals for slaughter requires It doesn't require it at all.
- Forbo 5y agoSorry, can you expound on this?
- soperj 5y agoMost grazers don't actually destroy anything. They eat a bit of the plant not the entire thing.
- __MatrixMan__ 5y agoFobo's point wasn't about which parts of the plant get destroyed, it was just about how much food you have to put into a cow in order to get different food out of a cow. It's a lossy conversion.
- Forbo 5y agoAdditionally, lots of factory farmed beef doesn't involve grazing. Instead they feed them corn and soy. Factory farming makes up 98.66% of meat production comes from factory farms. 70.4% of beef comes from factory farms. https://sentientmedia.org/factory-farms/ https://sentientmedia.org/factory-farms/