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Inside the Republican effort to force millions of farm animals back into cages (www.vox.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cropland usage is still lower when looking at the nutrition of it all

we show that plant-based replacements for each of the major animal categories in the United States (beef, pork, dairy, poultry, and eggs) can produce twofold to 20-fold more nutritionally similar food per unit cropland. Replacing all animal-based items with plant-based replacement diets can add enough food to feed 350 million additional people, more than the expected benefits of eliminating all supply chain food loss.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1713820115

Further, we can plant other crops on that land growing feed crops. The greatly lower cropland usage offers quite a bit of flexibility to shift around production

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Cropland usage is still lower when looking at the nutrition of it all

I disagree with you and that paper's abstract. They're comparing worst-case current aggriculture with a hypothetical improved horticulture.

Also, I extended my previous post; you might have missed it.

Further, we can plant other crops on that land growing feed crops

How do you intend to kill off the demand for those crops? Or do you intend to forbid people and businesses from consuming crops with a lot of feed-waste like corn or soy?