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So disgusting. There are millions of vegeterian options available. But as usual, get science involved and people make it more complicated.
by amalag 15y ago
So disgusting. There are millions of vegeterian options available. But as usual, get science involved and people make it more complicated.
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoI'm thinking vegetarian options are not necessarily more eco-friendly than this solution, which is 10-100 times more efficient than pigs. Factory-grown bugs take little room. The corn around here (I'm in Iowa) take up 96% of the land surface of the state. Organic vegetables take up - more ecosystem. More passes thru the field to baby them, more loss to insects etc so less yield. And they are labor-intensive so load them with the cost of raising the humans that tend them. Humans are Really eco-unfriendly, especially when used as laborers.
- cdcarter 15y agoHow much of that corn grown is for human consumption, and how much becomes cattle feed?
- thegoatrope 15y agoI vaguely remember it being some huge number, like 80%-90%? The rest of it goes to ethanol and high fructose corn syrup and other processing. I'm pretty sure the amount of corn that is grown for humans to eat as corn directly is (much?) less than 5%. A quick Google search showed roughly similar stats.
- nas 15y agoEthanol is now using about 40% of the US corn crop.
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoFunny thing, Pepsi is Iowa's largest customer.
- amalag 15y agoYeah humans as laborers in fields, how inhumane, we need to get them free so they can work in factories.
- amalag 15y agoI should have said get "scientists" involved and they make it more complicated. As usual they don't know what they are talking about. This earth can support 10x the current population with a vegeterian agrarian lifestyle. Our current system is exploitative and selfish. As Gandhi said, there is enough for everyone's need, not everyone's greed.