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> it’s probably best to eat the largest ones you have. This fails at scale. Feeding our population on large animals requires significantly more plant mass than
by PretzelPirate 5y ago
> it’s probably best to eat the largest ones you have.
This fails at scale. Feeding our population on large animals requires significantly more plant mass than if we eat plants. Large animals are terribly inefficient at converting plant matter into food.
We will harm fewer sentient creatures if we simply eat plants directly.
- PaulHoule 5y agoIf you are eating grains directly or feed grains to (say) chickens you have to plow the land, clear other vegetation, cause erosion, probably use fertilizers and pesticides. At a certain scale though you can graze animals on grass sustainably, building soil structure instead of destroying it. The environmental movement has a beef with beef but the more I look at it chicken is the problem.