• Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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    This is not true. The vast majority of farmed animals come from high intensity operations and the vast bulk of the food they eat is grown agriculturally. This is one of those happy little lies people repeat to themselves without verifying because it provides them with a shred of moral license. They don’t really care whether it’s true or not and finding out it is false won’t change their behaviour, it’s a totally facile argument.

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      the vast bulk of the food they eat is grown agriculturally.

      sure, but I can’t eat cornstalks and I don’t want to eat soy cake, so feeding that to livestock is a conservation of resources.

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        Where are you getting your information?

        The majority of all the plants that humans grow are fed to livestock. That’s just the fact of the matter. It’s not conserving anything, rather it’s incredibly wasteful. Human food crops could have been grown instead, on a fraction of the land.

        And again, you don’t really give a shit. It wouldn’t change your behaviour to discover you are mistaken, it’s a disingenuous argument. It’s sophistry.

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          Human food crops could have been grown instead, on a fraction of the land.

          human food crops are grown. soy is a great example. about 80% of soy is pressed for oil, and the byproduct is fed to livestock.