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minus-squaretorknorggren@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoExcept almonds. Almonds are terrible water wasters, and mostly grown in California where they can least afford the water.
minus-squaretrevor@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoStill more efficient on resource utilization than animal agriculture. If you hate almond milk for that reason, you should want the dairy industry completely abolished.
minus-squarejeffw@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoShit, you should want all animal agriculture banned.
minus-squareBlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 year agoEh, there are plenty of use cases where certain land types aren’t really arable. Ruminants fill that niche easily. The catch is that like 80% of the land used for livestock currently could also use crops instead. https://freefromharm.org/agriculture-environment/saving-the-world-with-livestock-the-allan-savory-approach-examined/ Fwiw US dairy plans to be carbon neutral by 2050. https://www.npr.org/2022/04/27/1095100351/the-dairy-industry-aims-to-be-carbon-neutral-by-2050-heres-what-it-means-for-far
minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoThe 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.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year ago The bigger catch is that 70% of all crops we grow go to our livestock. this isn’t true
minus-squarepafu@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoLivestock accounts for 77% of global farming land, while supplying only 18% of calories and 37% of protein. Source
Except almonds. Almonds are terrible water wasters, and mostly grown in California where they can least afford the water.
Still more efficient on resource utilization than animal agriculture. If you hate almond milk for that reason, you should want the dairy industry completely abolished.
Shit, you should want all animal agriculture banned.
Based and correct.
Eh, there are plenty of use cases where certain land types aren’t really arable. Ruminants fill that niche easily.
The catch is that like 80% of the land used for livestock currently could also use crops instead.
https://freefromharm.org/agriculture-environment/saving-the-world-with-livestock-the-allan-savory-approach-examined/
Fwiw US dairy plans to be carbon neutral by 2050.
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/27/1095100351/the-dairy-industry-aims-to-be-carbon-neutral-by-2050-heres-what-it-means-for-far
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.
this isn’t true
Livestock accounts for 77% of global farming land, while supplying only 18% of calories and 37% of protein.
Source