Re:Defying gravity, 2022 Climate Tech VC funding totals $70....
by RGamma on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:44AM
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In any case, meat production's externalities go far beyond direct emissions.
> Half of all habitable land is used for agriculture. [...]
> There is also a highly unequal distribution of land use between livestock and crops for human consumption. If we combine pastures used for grazing with land used to grow crops for animal feed, livestock accounts for 77% of global farming land. While livestock takes up most of the world’s agricultural land it only produces 18% of the world’s calories and 37% of total protein.
> Half of all habitable land is used for agriculture. [...]
> There is also a highly unequal distribution of land use between livestock and crops for human consumption. If we combine pastures used for grazing with land used to grow crops for animal feed, livestock accounts for 77% of global farming land. While livestock takes up most of the world’s agricultural land it only produces 18% of the world’s calories and 37% of total protein.
https://ourworldindata.org/land-use