People are ill equipped to put such large numbers in context, let alone ~40 of them.
Like a slide deck, better to limit to one number and one message per page(/screen). Otherwise, it's just a data dump.
I did not expect Asia to be quite so dominant. I did expect, but interesting to see confirmation, that the Americas grow so much grain for animal feed.
https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture
Edit: replaced scattered numbers with a proper source.
https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture
> More than three-quarters of global agricultural land is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.
> Despite the vast land used for livestock animals, they contribute quite a small share of the global calorie and protein supply. Meat, dairy, and farmed fish provide just 17% of the world’s calories and 38% of its protein.
https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
> Livestock are fed from two sources – lands on which the animals graze and land on which feeding crops, such as soy and cereals, are grown. How much would our agricultural land use decline if the world adopted a plant-based diet?
> Research suggests that if everyone shifted to a plant-based diet, we would reduce global land use for agriculture by 75%.
It gets talked about all the time.
The primary work by US environmentalists (or at least the popular ones) is in ensuring rich people’s homes abut publicly-maintained parks.
Add a K/D Ratio next plz
If you choose to eat meat, please be aware of the conditions most of these animals exist in and how they die. I'll spare you more numbers, because they don't do the cruel reality justice anyway. Instead, I'll leave you with some video material: https://animalequality.org/blog/factory-farming-facts/
CurrentB•1h ago
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What about raising cows or chickens, then consuming their milk and eggs?
CurrentB•1h ago
What do you do with the cow when its milk yield drops after several pregnancies? what do you do with the male calves? Just keep them all as pets?
I think there are situations I could contrive where I'd say yeah its fine ethically to eat these things, but the general case still has victims.
And again, since maybe the first week without them, I truly haven't missed milk or eggs or anything else after eliminating them from my diet. Plant options are pretty good too and there are plenty of plants.
kuerbel•45m ago
hshdhdhj4444•54m ago
Cannibalism, eating your young, rape, etc.
I’m not sure why killing for food is the one place we should choose to define our values and ethics based on what animals in the wild do.
barbazoo•1h ago