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Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018) by medstrom on Friday May 07, 2021 @05:25AM (#27074008)
>and the majority of the feed for those animals comes from... traditional crop farming.

I don't know how to find data but I thought that "grain-fed" cattle largely don't exist outside the USA (chicken/pork are different), so the only crop farmed is hay. And that may not impose as heavy costs as other crops?

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Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018) by dtech on Friday May 07, 2021 @05:36AM (#27074062)
Netherlands is the 2nd largest argricultural exporter [1], and has heavy factory animal farming that are all fed farmed crops. Very little grazing for meat animals.

[1] https://www.deheus.com/articles/news/the-netherlands-are-alm...

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