This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry.
www.vox.com
Almost half of the continental US is used for meat production. There’s something better we could do with it.
  • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    What’s the environmental cost of growing all that soy, corn and oats for an US wide vegetarian diet?

    • Peddlephile@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      A lot less than farming meat which requires all the cost of growing that and ensuring the animals are fed and watered until slaughtering.

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      From the article

      But not all agriculture is equally land-intensive. Meat-heavy diets require far more land than low-meat and vegetarian diets.

      But not only that it also requires crop land for plant-based diets. From a different source

      If everyone shifted to a plant-based diet we would reduce global land use for agriculture by 75%.

      […]

      If we would shift towards a more plant-based diet we don’t only need less agricultural land overall, we also need less cropland.

      https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets