Animal testing is exploitative and largely ineffective

Re:Animal testing is exploitative and largely ineffective by _Microft on Sunday June 13, 2021 @10:54AM (#27493136)

> The farms are manicured flat with row crops, irrigation, fertilizers, pesticides, etc. Farming is vastly more destructive to the natural environment.

You might be surprised but 40% of all (cereal) crops are produced to feed animals. That would almost completely go away except a bit to compensate for the loss of meat.

See https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cereal-distribution-to-us...

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Re:Animal testing is exploitative and largely ineffective by cheese_goddess on Sunday June 13, 2021 @06:24PM (#27497117)

So we'd be left with the other 60% and then we'd have to increase the production to make up for the decrase in production of meat. That's a very slim margin of improvement.

The other thing we could do of course is to avoid feeding animals with crops like soy and corn, and instead let them browse freely and eat the wild grasses and shrubs that they would eat normally, if humans didn't feed them more "efficient" feeds.

Obviously that would mean a significantly reduced number of farmed animals, but that's a feature, not a bug. Perhaps we can all agree on this: the true plague is industrial meat production.

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