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Your two quotes don't follow: > We increased crop yields multifold already With catastrophic effects. > Most of it is because of animal agriculture.
by foota 3y ago
Your two quotes don't follow:
> We increased crop yields multifold already
With catastrophic effects.
> Most of it is because of animal agriculture.
- defrost 3y agoThe animals need to be fed - a great deal of crop yield goes into making meat.
- myshpa 3y ago> two quotes don't follow They do. A significant influence on those increases was thanks to fertilizers, insecticides, and herbicides. This goes hand in hand with water pollution and biodiversity loss, exemplified by dead zones in oceans and an 80% decline in insect populations in the last few decades. Improvements in irrigation systems have led to the depletion of our aquifers, which were filled over many millennia, and their renewal may take centuries. Mechanization and soil management lead to soil erosion; maybe only a few decades of soil remain until we lose all of it. Less than 50% of our crops are for human consumption; the rest is used as animal feed and biofuels.
- timeon 3y agoAs example most soy is used by animal agriculture.
- MandieD 3y agoOne way to reduce the amount of soy grown is to eat more soy.
- OJFord 3y agoI misread that at first too, but animal agriculture. i.e. stuff grown for fodder. It's more efficient to fuel a human on food grown in the ground than on an animal fed on food grown in the ground. (I'm not vegan or otherwise promoting absolutes, it's just easier to explain/understand in the extreme I think.)