• Match!!@pawb.social
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    7 months ago

    counterpoint: industrial agriculture exists mostly to sustain animal products

    • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
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      7 months ago

      Crops like soybeans are mostly cultivated for animal consumption, but are you sure it holds for the entirety of the industrial agriculture?

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      7 months ago

      You mean, compared to what goes to the market for people?

      I don’t eat much of not industrial agriculture products, even local farms only produce fruits, and I would say they are also industrial (not sure where is the line)

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        Cows and other farm animals need a lot of food:

        More than three-quarters of global agricultural land is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world’s protein and calories. […] However, only half of the world’s croplands are used to grow crops that are consumed by humans directly. We use a lot of land to grow crops for biofuels and other industrial products, and an even bigger share is used to feed livestock.

        Source (OWID)

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          As per the article two thirds of that ‘agricultural land’ is graze-lands, so like a 12.5% of that agricultural land is actually farmland dedicated to feed livestock.

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          7 months ago

          I see, 25% is still not too little, I expected this to be less than 10% based on how you phrased the first comment. But you’re right, it’s possible to greatly reduce strain on land

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      7 months ago

      The animal products are also just more industrial scale, subsidized farming, too.