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Ironically, we're not very efficient at all with our land usage today. Nearly 60% of global agricultural land is used for beef (either for pasture or for growin
by agalunar 4y ago
Ironically, we're not very efficient at all with our land usage today. Nearly 60% of global agricultural land is used for beef (either for pasture or for growing feed) and yet it accounts for only 2% of our calories. And about 50% of all food is wasted – simply thrown away.
- Filligree 4y agoI doubt it affects your central claim, but do note that a lot of pasture land is unusable for anything else.
- Aicy 4y agoUnfortunately, in practice, the opposite is true. We grow food, such as grains, just to feed it to cattle which has 1% of the calorie efficiency. For example in the EU 63% of arable land is used to grow animal feed rather than food directly for humans.
- pksebben 4y agothat's an optimization error of another stripe - thrown away or not, the beef gets sold and FarmCo makes money