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Farming animals doesn't use more energy than farming vegetables. You use a truly staggering amount of petrochemicals making fertiliser, spreading fertiliser, cu
by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Farming animals doesn't use more energy than farming vegetables. You use a truly staggering amount of petrochemicals making fertiliser, spreading fertiliser, cultivating fields, planting seeds, harvesting crops, and all the rest of it.
Even if you grow silage crops specifically for feeding livestock it's not nearly so much faff and you use a relatively small amount of fertiliser and fuel.
- MagnumOpus 3y agoIt definitely uses more energy per calorie produced by a factor of 3 to 10. (Otherwise meat and cheese would cost roughly as much as rice or maize or bread or pasta.)
- Pxtl 3y agoFood that eats food isn't ever going to be efficient.
- Gordonjcp 3y agoLet me know when you figure out how to eat grass.
- hombre_fatal 3y agoAll of your problems with growing crops apply more to animals because most crops are grown to feed animals. 77% of soy worldwide is grown just to feed animals, for example. (7% is fed to humans) I don't know how you square the facts with what you want to believe on this issue, though I am curious.