• Fleur__@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Grazing is terrible for the environment and crops are specifically grown as animal feed. It wouldn’t be destroyed or burned because it wouldn’t be grown at all. Additionally there are plenty of other uses for inedible plant waste other than feeding to animals.

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      10 months ago

      Grazing is terrible for the environment

      Why do you say this?

      and crops are specifically grown as animal feed

      Generally speaking, this is untrue. A small number of crops are grown as animal feed, but it’s a waste of money to grow human edible crops for a majority of the animal feed cycle. As I said above, 86% of animal feed is inedible to humans, and a majority of the remaining 14% are dead calories.

      It wouldn’t be destroyed or burned because it wouldn’t be grown at all

      I guarantee nobody is backing off on growing corn, wheat, rice, or soy right now, even if we suddenly stopped letting anyone eat meat.

      Additionally there are plenty of other uses for inedible plant waste other than feeding to animals

      Are there? Care to cite which uses exist for feed that are better than the efficient process of using livestock to create some of the objectively highest-quality human-edible calories that exist in nature?

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        10 months ago

        Devastates local ecosystems

        It’s not untrue food is literally grown to feed animals

        Yes but I’m talking about the food grown to feed animals

        Biofuel and compost

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          Devastates local ecosystems

          Nope

          It’s not untrue food is literally grown to feed animals

          Actual nope.

          Yes but I’m talking about the food grown to feed animals

          So, you’re talking about fiction

          Biofuel and compost

          Whatever that means.