▲ 468 ▼ Eating Meat Is Bad for Climate Change, and Here Are All the Studies That Prove It (sentientmedia.org) submitted 2 years ago by veganpizza69@lemmy.world to c/climate@slrpnk.net 400 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 years ago (2 children) The majority of corn beans and a lot of grain all go to feeding livestock. You could be a lot more efficient growing the food directly. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Jaytreeman@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago Corn isn't very sweet (read energy rich). It's ridiculous to farm it for fuel. There are crops that are good, but they don't grow well in the continental US. permalink fedilink source parent [–] psud@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Feed/residual doesn't that include running sheep on harvested fields to eat the stubble and turn it into fertiliser? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago I don't think so, since that wouldn't be counted in the bushel yield. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jaytreeman@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago Corn isn't very sweet (read energy rich). It's ridiculous to farm it for fuel. There are crops that are good, but they don't grow well in the continental US. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] psud@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Feed/residual doesn't that include running sheep on harvested fields to eat the stubble and turn it into fertiliser? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago I don't think so, since that wouldn't be counted in the bushel yield. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago I don't think so, since that wouldn't be counted in the bushel yield. permalink fedilink source parent
