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ACTUALLY it is not animal agriculture, but plant agriculture, which is responsible for this devastation among birds. It is the thousand-acre mono-crop soybeans

ACTUALLY it is not animal agriculture, but plant agriculture, which is responsible for this devastation among birds. It is the thousand-acre mono-crop soybeans and wheat and corn fields that destroy habitats and flood the world with pesticides, which kill the bugs that the birds feed on. Animals, on the other hand, tend to regenerate grasslands and restore wildlife habitats. If you really want to help fix the environment then you should consider not eating plant-based food.

myshpa 3y ago
Apologies, but you are mistaken. > thousand-acre mono-crop soybeans and wheat and corn fields that destroy habitats and flood the world with pesticides https://ourworldindata.org/soy https://ourworldindata.org/soy More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of the rest is used for biofuels, industry or vegetable oils. Just 7% of soy is used directly for human food products such as tofu, soy milk, edamame beans, and tempeh. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/06/23/most-of-the-worlds-grain-is-not-eaten-by-humans https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/06/23/most-of-... Less than half of the world’s grain harvest is eaten by people ... nearly half of all grain is either burned as fuel or eaten by animals. The ... second-biggest crop, maize, was even less likely to end up on a plate: humans ate just 13% of global output Feeding grain to animals does generate food for people indirectly, in the form of milk, meat and eggs. However, this process is highly wasteful. For every 100 calories of grain fed to a cow, just three emerge as beef. > Animals, on the other hand, tend to regenerate grasslands and restore wildlife habitats https://ourworldindata.org/biodiversity https://ourworldindata.org/biodiversity https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammal-decline https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammal-decline Thankfully we have options to build a better future. If we can reduce agricultural land – and primarily land use for livestock – we can free up land for wild mammals to return. > If you really want to help fix the environment then you should consider not eating plant-based food. https://yourveganfallacyis.com/en/vegans-kill-animals-too https://yourveganfallacyis.com/en/vegans-kill-animals-too Crop fields do indeed disrupt the habitats of wild animals, and wild animals are also killed when harvesting plants. However, this point makes the case for a plant-based diet and not against it, since many more plants are required to produce a measure of animal flesh for food (often as high as 12:1) than are required to produce an equal measure of plants for food (which is obviously 1:1). Because of this, a plant-based diet causes less suffering and death than one that includes animals. https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-global-food-system-primary-driver-biodiversity-loss https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-glob... Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss, with agriculture alone being the identified threat to 24,000 of the 28,000 (86%) species at risk of extinction. The global rate of species extinction today is higher than the average rate over the past 10 million years. Firsty, global dietary patterns need to move towards more plant-heavy diets, mainly due to the disproportionate impact of animal agriculture on biodiversity, land use and the environment. Such a shift, coupled with the reduction of global food waste, would reduce demand and the pressure on the environment and land, benefit the health of populations around the world, and help reduce the risk of pandemics. Secondly, more land needs to be protected and set aside for nature. Thirdly, we need to farm in a more nature-friendly, biodiversity-supporting way, limiting the use of inputs and replacing monoculture with polyculture farming practices.
- d0mine 3y ago
  It is not so clear cut https://youtu.be/sGG-A80Tl5g https://youtu.be/sGG-A80Tl5g
  - jononomo 3y ago
    Thank you for posting this!
  - myshpa 3y ago
    Numerous scientific studies confirm this, but the meat/dairy industry spreads propaganda and misinformation to protect itself. The meat industry is borrowing tactics from Big Oil to obfuscate the truth about climate change https://www.salon.com/2022/11/11/the-meat-industry-is-borrowing-tactics-from-big-oil-to-obfuscate-the-truth-about-climate-change/ https://www.salon.com/2022/11/11/the-meat-industry-is-borrow... Inside big beef’s climate messaging machine: confuse, defend and downplay https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/03/beef-industry-public-relations-messaging-machine https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/03/beef-ind... The Big Beef With the Meat Industry’s Advertising Tactics https://medium.com/@jodi_64782/the-big-beef-with-the-meat-industrys-advertising-tactics-8de905010660 https://medium.com/@jodi_64782/the-big-beef-with-the-meat-in... Revealed: group shaping US nutrition receives millions from big food industry https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/09/academy-nutrition-financial-ties-processed-food-companies-contributions https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/09/academy-nutr... Why Right-Wingers Are So Afraid of Men Eating Vegetables https://newrepublic.com/article/171781/meat-culture-war-crickets https://newrepublic.com/article/171781/meat-culture-war-cric... How BIG MEAT and DAIRY Fooled You (With Lies and Propaganda) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8xWvJMSFsI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8xWvJMSFsI Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000010 https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal... Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding... If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets Plant-Based Lifestyles Now ‘Imperative’ For Survival, IPCC Climate Expert Says https://plantbasednews.org/news/plant-based-lifestyles-imperative-survival-climate-expert/ https://plantbasednews.org/news/plant-based-lifestyles-imper...

myshpa 3y ago

Apologies, but you are mistaken. > thousand-acre mono-crop soybeans and wheat and corn fields that destroy habitats and flood the world with pesticides https://ourworldindata.org/soy https://ourworldindata.org/soy More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of the rest is used for biofuels, industry or vegetable oils. Just 7% of soy is used directly for human food products such as tofu, soy milk, edamame beans, and tempeh. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/06/23/most-of-the-worlds-grain-is-not-eaten-by-humans https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/06/23/most-of-... Less than half of the world’s grain harvest is eaten by people ... nearly half of all grain is either burned as fuel or eaten by animals. The ... second-biggest crop, maize, was even less likely to end up on a plate: humans ate just 13% of global output Feeding grain to animals does generate food for people indirectly, in the form of milk, meat and eggs. However, this process is highly wasteful. For every 100 calories of grain fed to a cow, just three emerge as beef. > Animals, on the other hand, tend to regenerate grasslands and restore wildlife habitats https://ourworldindata.org/biodiversity https://ourworldindata.org/biodiversity https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammal-decline https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammal-decline Thankfully we have options to build a better future. If we can reduce agricultural land – and primarily land use for livestock – we can free up land for wild mammals to return. > If you really want to help fix the environment then you should consider not eating plant-based food. https://yourveganfallacyis.com/en/vegans-kill-animals-too https://yourveganfallacyis.com/en/vegans-kill-animals-too Crop fields do indeed disrupt the habitats of wild animals, and wild animals are also killed when harvesting plants. However, this point makes the case for a plant-based diet and not against it, since many more plants are required to produce a measure of animal flesh for food (often as high as 12:1) than are required to produce an equal measure of plants for food (which is obviously 1:1). Because of this, a plant-based diet causes less suffering and death than one that includes animals. https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-global-food-system-primary-driver-biodiversity-loss https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-glob... Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss, with agriculture alone being the identified threat to 24,000 of the 28,000 (86%) species at risk of extinction. The global rate of species extinction today is higher than the average rate over the past 10 million years. Firsty, global dietary patterns need to move towards more plant-heavy diets, mainly due to the disproportionate impact of animal agriculture on biodiversity, land use and the environment. Such a shift, coupled with the reduction of global food waste, would reduce demand and the pressure on the environment and land, benefit the health of populations around the world, and help reduce the risk of pandemics. Secondly, more land needs to be protected and set aside for nature. Thirdly, we need to farm in a more nature-friendly, biodiversity-supporting way, limiting the use of inputs and replacing monoculture with polyculture farming practices.

d0mine 3y ago
It is not so clear cut https://youtu.be/sGG-A80Tl5g https://youtu.be/sGG-A80Tl5g
- jononomo 3y ago
  Thank you for posting this!
- myshpa 3y ago
  Numerous scientific studies confirm this, but the meat/dairy industry spreads propaganda and misinformation to protect itself. The meat industry is borrowing tactics from Big Oil to obfuscate the truth about climate change https://www.salon.com/2022/11/11/the-meat-industry-is-borrowing-tactics-from-big-oil-to-obfuscate-the-truth-about-climate-change/ https://www.salon.com/2022/11/11/the-meat-industry-is-borrow... Inside big beef’s climate messaging machine: confuse, defend and downplay https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/03/beef-industry-public-relations-messaging-machine https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/03/beef-ind... The Big Beef With the Meat Industry’s Advertising Tactics https://medium.com/@jodi_64782/the-big-beef-with-the-meat-industrys-advertising-tactics-8de905010660 https://medium.com/@jodi_64782/the-big-beef-with-the-meat-in... Revealed: group shaping US nutrition receives millions from big food industry https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/09/academy-nutrition-financial-ties-processed-food-companies-contributions https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/09/academy-nutr... Why Right-Wingers Are So Afraid of Men Eating Vegetables https://newrepublic.com/article/171781/meat-culture-war-crickets https://newrepublic.com/article/171781/meat-culture-war-cric... How BIG MEAT and DAIRY Fooled You (With Lies and Propaganda) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8xWvJMSFsI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8xWvJMSFsI Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000010 https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal... Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding... If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets Plant-Based Lifestyles Now ‘Imperative’ For Survival, IPCC Climate Expert Says https://plantbasednews.org/news/plant-based-lifestyles-imperative-survival-climate-expert/ https://plantbasednews.org/news/plant-based-lifestyles-imper...