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>> 90%, literally, of agriculture is used to feed animals for meat production. How did you get that number? >>but you're inferring that meat is efficient in t
by kamaal 12y ago
>> 90%, literally, of agriculture is used to feed animals for meat production.
How did you get that number?
>>but you're inferring that meat is efficient in the present
Apart from the first world countries, agriculture productivity in most poor and developing countries is still at where it was middle ages. In my own country(India) there are farmers that still plough the land with cattle, the remaining grain processing methods are super outdated. These sort of stone age farming practices, combined with stagnant government policies making it difficult for importing agriculture equipment, add to this no coherent thought or depth in making long term investments in irrigation infrastructure is what makes this whole process inefficient. Not Meat.
>>The planet is resource-strapped
The planet has plenty of resources we just need to know how to tap into them efficiently.
- astazangasta 12y ago>The planet has plenty of resources we just need to know how to tap into them efficiently. This is an empty phrase. Where is the arable land? Where is the pasture land? How are you going to raise meat in the future when there is nowhere left to raise it? Part of this "efficiency" is to stop taking grain/roughage and running it through an animal's metabolism in order to produce protein for human consumption. There are better ways, like http://impossiblefoods.com/ http://impossiblefoods.com/.
- beat 12y agoI don't understand. Are you saying that using arable land causes that land to stop existing? There will always be a place to raise both plants and animals, unless all the continents disappear into the sea. As for "Impossible Foods", I don't understand the fixation on making fake meat and dairy products. To me, that's just encouraging the shift away from natural and minimally processed foods, toward a junk food diet of things manufactured in factories from raw resources of industrial agriculture - monocropped fields of soy and corn farmed with industrial poisons and lab engineering. Factory junk food is our diet problem, not meat. It's also our environmental destruction problem.