• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    our total crop land use would go down if we didn’t eat animals

    even poore-nemecek doesn’t say this. do you have a source that does?

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      well that part is just logical

      about 10% of the energy and nutrients animals consume get passed down into humans (ie for 10kg of feed we get 1kg of meat - i’m actually surprised it’s even this much!)

      that means if we get those nutrients from plants directly for every 10kg of plant we get - perhaps not 10kg since there’s still waste, but you don’t waste 90% of the plant to consume