Can We Grow More Food on Less Land?

Re:Can We Grow More Food on Less Land? by travisoneill1 on Friday December 07, 2018 @03:47PM (#18631452)

I don't see stacking as many people as possible on Earth as a worthy goal and therefore I am not interested in changing my behavior for the purpose of achieving it.

Your animal suffering point has merit. But what the article is talking about is simply growing enough food to feed more people, so that's what I am addressing. However, I think that this is just another symptom of the same thing. Factory farming is only necessary if we need to feed multiple billions.

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Re:Can We Grow More Food on Less Land? by kieranmaine on Friday December 07, 2018 @04:37PM (#18631932)

I agree that we should stop over population, but that involves developing and enriching countries to lower the birth rate. As countries get richer they eat more meat, so the problem may still remain even if the population does decline.

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