• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    the amount of food it requires to feed the meat we eat is extremely wasteful

    a lot of what we give livestock are parts of plants that people can’t or won’t eat. that’s the opposite of wasteful.

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      1 year ago

      Parts of plans that were specifically grown for livestock that we won’t eat, that is. At least a big part.

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        1 year ago

        i’m talking about waste product from our crops, like cottonseed from the textile industry or soymeal leftover from making soybean oil or silage.

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          And he’s talking about crops specifically grown for livestock. Of which there is quite a lot. Hell, even pets that aren’t considered live-stock outright, like Horses, consume tremendous amounts of feed that isn’t just by-products.

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            1 year ago

            And he’s talking about crops specifically grown for livestock.

            what i said was true. what they said wasn’t nuance, it was stated as a contradiction. your framing of it as nuance is a red herring.