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Also recall the nature of the food chain. Growing animal flesh requires 10x the plant inputs compared to consuming plants directly.
by aradox66 3y ago
Also recall the nature of the food chain. Growing animal flesh requires 10x the plant inputs compared to consuming plants directly.
- pjmlp 3y agoUnless we are talking about soya and destroying Amazon to create soya fields. What an improvement!
- beebeepka 3y agoOh, it's the soya, not cows? Not corn for ethanol? It must be the vegan's fault.
- kawsper 3y agoAnd in the EU and US soya is mostly used to feed livestock.
- aradox66 3y agoEven/especially with those plants. First of all, again, the vast majority of that slash and burn agriculture is used to feed animal livestock. Second, even if that agriculture was used for human consumption instead of animal livestock, it would again require 10 times less land to feed humans than it does to feed animals that are fed to humans.