We really don’t need much protein: 0.8g per kg of bodyweight for typical sedentary adults [1], none of which needs to be sourced from animals. Perhaps even wor

We really don’t need much protein: 0.8g per kg of bodyweight for typical sedentary adults [1], none of which needs to be sourced from animals. Perhaps even worse than the energy requirements of animal agriculture is its land use. Today, a staggering 50% of all habitable land on Earth is used for agriculture, of which 77% is used for animals (this does include arable land used to grow fodder) [2]. (By comparison, pre-industrial society used ~4% of habitable land for farming. Of course, we’re far more numerous so we couldn’t expect to revert to that now.) Vertical farming is most surely not the solution. We just need to end the grotesque industrial slaughter that we’ve become utterly perversely normalized to. There is more than enough land on Earth for us all to eat in abundance, just not on omnivorous diets. [1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26797090/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26797090/ [2]: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use https://ourworldindata.org/land-use