• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    The bigger catch is that 70% of all crops we grow go to our livestock.

    We wouldn’t need to use those lands if we just ate less meat.

    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      The bigger catch is that 70% of all crops we grow go to our livestock.

      this isn’t true

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        1 year ago

        Livestock accounts for 77% of global farming land, while supplying only 18% of calories and 37% of protein.

        Source

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          1 year ago

          Added to what the other guy said (that it’s grazing land that HAS to fallow whether used or not), that 77% number ALSO counts the waste from crops we’re growing for humans, waste that would be going to an incinerator if they weren’t going to a cow or pig.

          Very few (if any, depending how you define the breakdown) crops are grown with animals as their focus. It just so happens that’s how much of those crops we cannot digest.