usernamesAreTricky ( usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml ) to Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.ml · 3 years agoThis land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry. | Almost half of the continental US is used for meat production. There’s something better we could do with it.www.vox.comexternal-linkmessage-square51linkfedilinkarrow-up1268cross-posted to: environmentvegan@slrpnk.net
arrow-up1268external-linkThis land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry. | Almost half of the continental US is used for meat production. There’s something better we could do with it.www.vox.comusernamesAreTricky ( usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml ) to Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.ml · 3 years agomessage-square51linkfedilinkcross-posted to: environmentvegan@slrpnk.net
minus-squaredubyakay ( dubyakay@lemmy.ca ) linkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 years agoWhat’s the environmental cost of growing all that soy, corn and oats for an US wide vegetarian diet?
minus-squarePeddlephile ( Peddlephile@lemm.ee ) linkfedilinkarrow-up11·3 years agoA lot less than farming meat which requires all the cost of growing that and ensuring the animals are fed and watered until slaughtering.
minus-squareusernamesAreTricky ( usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml ) OPlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 years agoFrom the article But not all agriculture is equally land-intensive. Meat-heavy diets require far more land than low-meat and vegetarian diets. But not only that it also requires crop land for plant-based diets. From a different source If everyone shifted to a plant-based diet we would reduce global land use for agriculture by 75%. […] If we would shift towards a more plant-based diet we don’t only need less agricultural land overall, we also need less cropland. https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
What’s the environmental cost of growing all that soy, corn and oats for an US wide vegetarian diet?
A lot less than farming meat which requires all the cost of growing that and ensuring the animals are fed and watered until slaughtering.
From the article
But not only that it also requires crop land for plant-based diets. From a different source
https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets