Be civil and follow principle of charity in the comments.

      • jet@hackertalks.com
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        5 hours ago

        No one has to eat meat

        People with crohn’s or colostomy bags would disagree.

        in fact with all the space used for animals we could produce way more food instead.

        The space used for animals is grassland and doesn’t have the right soil to be cropland. i.e. if all animals disappeared tomorrow we wouldn’t get any more cropland at all.

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          2 hours ago

          With one exception being the animals that are fed with crops.

          We wouldn’t grow more crops in total, but more would be available for human consumption.

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            We wouldn’t grow more crops in total, but more would be available for human consumption.

            The bulk of animal food from crops isn’t human edible, i.e. the leftover waste. Cows have an amazing ruminant digestive system that can process plant food that humans can’t!