@Kurtagag@lemmy.ca to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agoWhat’s your ultimate unpopular opinion?lockmessage-square448fedilinkarrow-up1132arrow-down18
arrow-up1124arrow-down1message-squareWhat’s your ultimate unpopular opinion?lock@Kurtagag@lemmy.ca to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square448fedilink
minus-squareNSRXNlinkfedilink-5•1 year agomost of what animals are fed are parts of plants people can’t or won’t eat, or grazed grass. in that way, we are conserving resources.
minus-squareNSRXNlinkfedilink-3•1 year ago the vast bulk of the food they eat is grown agriculturally. sure, but I can’t eat cornstalks and I don’t want to eat soy cake, so feeding that to livestock is a conservation of resources.
minus-squareNSRXNlinkfedilink0•1 year ago The majority of all the plants that humans grow are fed to livestock. this is a lie
minus-squareNSRXNlinkfedilink0•1 year ago Human food crops could have been grown instead, on a fraction of the land. human food crops are grown. soy is a great example. about 80% of soy is pressed for oil, and the byproduct is fed to livestock.
minus-square@ByGourou@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink1•edit-21 year agoRead more than the first sentence please “Some of those are useless calories, we can’t eat grass and on some lands where only grass grows so cows are a way of using that grass, but that’s not the majority.”
minus-squareNSRXNlinkfedilink0•1 year agomost people don’t want to eat soy cake, or crop seconds, or spoilage. feeding that to livestock is a conservation of resources, not a waste.
minus-squareNSRXNlinkfedilink-1•1 year ago it does not address the moral argument that is at the root of this discussion. the moral argument in this thread is about allocation of resources. if you want to make a separate moral argument, you’re free to do so.
most of what animals are fed are parts of plants people can’t or won’t eat, or grazed grass. in that way, we are conserving resources.
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sure, but I can’t eat cornstalks and I don’t want to eat soy cake, so feeding that to livestock is a conservation of resources.
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this is a lie
human food crops are grown. soy is a great example. about 80% of soy is pressed for oil, and the byproduct is fed to livestock.
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That’s exactly what I wrote
no, you said those calories are wasted.
Read more than the first sentence please
“Some of those are useless calories, we can’t eat grass and on some lands where only grass grows so cows are a way of using that grass, but that’s not the majority.”
most people don’t want to eat soy cake, or crop seconds, or spoilage. feeding that to livestock is a conservation of resources, not a waste.
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it is
the moral argument in this thread is about allocation of resources. if you want to make a separate moral argument, you’re free to do so.