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Re:Plants communicate with each other when in danger by aradox66 on Saturday October 21, 2023 @08:42PM (#37971848)
Also recall the nature of the food chain. Growing animal flesh requires 10x the plant inputs compared to consuming plants directly.
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Re:Plants communicate with each other when in danger by pjmlp on Sunday October 22, 2023 @03:16AM (#37973490)
Unless we are talking about soya and destroying Amazon to create soya fields.

What an improvement!

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Re:Plants communicate with each other when in danger by beebeepka on Sunday October 22, 2023 @03:30AM (#37973533)
Oh, it's the soya, not cows? Not corn for ethanol?

It must be the vegan's fault.

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Re:Plants communicate with each other when in danger by kawsper on Sunday October 22, 2023 @04:00AM (#37973649)
And in the EU and US soya is mostly used to feed livestock.
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Re:Plants communicate with each other when in danger by aradox66 on Monday October 23, 2023 @12:26PM (#37987951)
Even/especially with those plants.

First of all, again, the vast majority of that slash and burn agriculture is used to feed animal livestock.

Second, even if that agriculture was used for human consumption instead of animal livestock, it would again require 10 times less land to feed humans than it does to feed animals that are fed to humans.

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