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Again, I don't like the way you are using numbers. Your 915M acres figure lumps pasture into cropland, which you are using to make the corn for feed number loo
by thinkcontext 4y ago
Again, I don't like the way you are using numbers. Your 915M acres figure lumps pasture into cropland, which you are using to make the corn for feed number look smaller.
> So if we accept that the pasture range cannot be used for crops, then what we are looking at is the animal feed area (which is both fodder and crops that could be eaten by humans but is eaten by animals). It’s 125M acres, I think, or ~14% of all ag land.
The Bloomberg article that is the source for your source, disagrees with you and categorizes the livestock feed acreage as cropland. So again, you are distorting the picture to make the animal feed number look smaller. Your own source is saying that more acres of cropland are used to feed animals than people.
- jessriedel 4y agoSounds like you are misinterpreting me because I haven’t said anything that disagrees with the Bloomberg article, and in particular I agree more land is used for crops eaten by animals than crops eaten by people. The amount of land used for pasture is definitely germane to the discussion we were having before you began commenting. See my first comment and the one I was replying to. If you continue to assume bad faith, I won’t continue the discussion.