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Switching to plant based alternatives won’t really fix the large fields of soy and corn that are the issue. We may need less to feed cattle then, but then we wi

Switching to plant based alternatives won’t really fix the large fields of soy and corn that are the issue. We may need less to feed cattle then, but then we will need to produce more plant protein for direct human consumption or even bioreactors.

triceratops 3y ago
Soy is extremely high in protein. And we'd need to grow far less of it than we do now, because there's no conversion loss like with raising meat.
myshpa 3y ago
Human consumption of soy & corn is not the problem. > large fields of soy 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" > fields of ... corn that are the issue Corn crop is mainly used for biofuels (40%) and as animal feed (36%) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-corn/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-c... https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/corn-industries-sustainability-food-prices/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/corn-industries-susta... U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-ethanol-worse-climate-than-gasoline-study-finds-2022-02-14/ https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-e... > We may need less to feed cattle then, but then we will need to produce more plant protein for direct human consumption or even bioreactors Not at all. 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

triceratops 3y ago

Soy is extremely high in protein. And we'd need to grow far less of it than we do now, because there's no conversion loss like with raising meat.

myshpa 3y ago

Human consumption of soy & corn is not the problem. > large fields of soy 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" > fields of ... corn that are the issue Corn crop is mainly used for biofuels (40%) and as animal feed (36%) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-corn/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-c... https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/corn-industries-sustainability-food-prices/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/corn-industries-susta... U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-ethanol-worse-climate-than-gasoline-study-finds-2022-02-14/ https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-e... > We may need less to feed cattle then, but then we will need to produce more plant protein for direct human consumption or even bioreactors Not at all. 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