• @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Why? Because all the animal herders will still produce lots of meat at a loss and then just burn everything no one wants to eat?

      • @[email protected]
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        01 year ago

        i don’t believe the methodology used to calculate emissions from animal agriculture is appropriate: every examination i’ve done has attributed emissions to animals that are actually conservation, like feeding cattle cottonseed and then attributing the impacts of cotton grown for textiles to cattle.

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          31 year ago

          But then you doubt the number and not the general effect of reducing carbon emissions by switching to a plant-based diet, right? Because it is pretty obvious, that growing plants and then feeding those plants to animals is way more inefficient than eating the plants without extra steps.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            a lot of what is fed to animals are parts of plants that people can’t or won’t eat. there may be some reduction but i don’t believe it can be anywhere near 70%

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              Do you have any sources on hand? It’s hard to google for this stuff without running into sites by PETA etc, which are too biased for my taste.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                i don’t know of any broad surveys across crop categories but i’m pretty familiar with soy

                https://ourworldindata.org/soy

                you can see that 17% of all soybeans becomes oil. but a soybean is only about 20% oil altogether. in order to extract that much oil, we must press about 85% of the global crop of soybeans. the vast majority if the soy fed to livestock is the industrial waste from that process. you can see in that chart it’s called “soy cake” or “soy meal”.

                elsewhere in this thread i mentioned cottonseed.

                • @DarthFrodo
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                  in order to extract that much oil, we must press about 85% of the global crop of soybeans. the vast majority if the soy fed to livestock is the industrial waste from that process.

                  I’ve already told you that we can produce plant-based meat or soy protein for other uses from that, which you conceded, and you still call it “industrial waste”. Why are you knowingly spreading misinformation?

                  • @[email protected]
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                    11 year ago

                    not only can we do that: we DO that. but there frankly isn’t enough human use for that, so it would be wasted if we didn’t feed it to animals.

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                    01 year ago

                    Why are you knowingly spreading misinformation?

                    i am doing no such thing. i’m simply pointing out your lies.

                • @[email protected]
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                  21 year ago

                  But then humans can also eat that soy meal to get their proteins. It’s pretty tasty, I eat it regularly.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    11 year ago

                    people do eat soy meal but they eat very little of the amount produced. if the vast majority of it weren’t fed to livestock it would just be waste.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      If you see how much crops we need to grow and fresh water we need to feed a cow, you’d see how inefficient meat is.

      70% of all the crops we grow is to feed our livestock.

      Meaning for 1/3 on our plate, we use more than double the resources than the other 2/3 combined.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I’m going to use your sound logical deductions and reasoning skills to reply to your comment in kind, ready?

      I doubt it

      Yeah? Well I doubt THAT.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        you can doubt whether i doubt something but i am the authority on whether i doubt something so self-reporting my doubt is the strongest evidence that can be gathered in support of the claim.

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        01 year ago

        a claim made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. i’ve presented exactly as much evedince as the claim to which i was responding.