Growing cattle has also had a massive impact on the environment. And you often need more land for animal based materials because you both need land for the animals and the land to grow food for the animals. With cotton at least you just need land for the cotton.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (46 children)

Why is this always brought up, stop spreading this. Animals usually are not fed grain unless it's harvesting time. We also do not grow food just to feed them. The grain we feed animals is shit you cannot eat. It's roots/stalks/stems/bad/rotted plant matter. It's the leftovers from the greens we can consume. Most animals also are raised on land that is not suitable for crops, rocky/hilly/weak topsoil land.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What you say is true for 5% of animal feed globaly.

[–] pine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That 46% is land whose biodiversity and ecosystems have been intentionally crushed for the meat industry.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

100 % or this chart is made up of food we got by intentionally crushing land for the meat Industry. It shows how the food we feed livestock is spread across different feeding sources, not the land uses by said food source.

I poated it because the person I replied to insisted that most of the food animals are fed is just the uneatable byproduct of agricultural products made for humans. This chats shows its defnetily not the main source used to feed animals, as it only makes up about 5 %

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