Re:The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’
by roflyear on Friday August 19, 2022 @12:03PM
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This is still misleading, and talk like this generally suggest that livestock don't use up extra resources. They use up an INSANE amount of resources!
Land used for livestock feed is 2x what is used for humans (in the US). Nevermind the land required to raise the livestock.
In 'standard' farming practice, a vast majority of the feed for cattle is grass, hay, or other sorts of grass things. The last month or so before slaughter they are fed heavy grain to bulk up a little and be more marketable. (source; my farm).
In Industrial scale farming (which one could argue is the actual standard now because people demand cheap meat), cattle are kept in feed lots for their lives and pushed heavy grain.
Pigs don't eat grass. Chickens don't eat grass.