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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • Pork and poultry might not use as much land as beef directly but they use a lot of land to grow animal feed. I don’t think the chart focuses on beef, but beef might skew the land area chart for meat indeed.

    You might not like “the agenda”, but the truth is still that eating meat is an inefficient way to produce calories on a global level. On a small scale, it makes sense - animal farming often feeds off of human waste, contributes fertiliser, provides some extra calories in the winter. But at a global scale, what happens is whole countries are dedicated to producing animal feed and pastures. And if you remember the trofic levels from science class, you lose an order of magnitude of energy when you go up a level in the food chain.

    Humans throw away food across the board. I don’t understand how this is relevant to the point you’re making.

    Oh, and don’t forget how much meat is subsidised in most countries. Capitalism loves to hide the real costs of the product.