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That is certainly true, but livestock is often eating row crops. A significant chunk of soybean meal and corn goes to feed livestock [1] [2]. If those row crops
by richiebful1 4y ago
That is certainly true, but livestock is often eating row crops. A significant chunk of soybean meal and corn goes to feed livestock [1] [2]. If those row crops were consumed directly by humans instead, it would require a lot less land. [3]
[1] https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/where_do_all_these_soybeans_go https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/where_do_all_these_soybeans_go
[2] https://www.iowacorn.org/corn-uses/ https://www.iowacorn.org/corn-uses/
[3] https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-million-people-grain-livestock-eat https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-m...
- dilap 4y agoYou need more than just raw calories, though. How much plant food would it take to match this in terms of protein and B-vitamins? https://imgur.com/a/8zzvcrq https://imgur.com/a/8zzvcrq So that's just 1 pound of beef. You could get about 500 pounds of that raising a cow for a couple of years and slaughtering it. What inputs would you need? Not too much, if you have grass, which a lot of the earth does. Let the cow graze, find it water. Optionally fatten it up at the end w/ some grain -- probably a better use than making ethanol out of it, at least. We used to have millions of wild buffalo roaming North America. They were a dietary stable for many Native American tribes. Were they really living in a less sustainable way than modern vegans picking up Impossible Burgers from Whole Foods?