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• hans@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  none. not really. if we are using it, it’s not wasted, and much of what we feed livestock is plants or parts of plants that people can’t or won’t eat

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• aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  fun fact: we kill between 1 and 3 TRILLION animals a year for food and textiles.

  Wait, that’s not a fun fact!

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  • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not all animals are the same. Killing an endangered dolphin weighs much different to eating a mussel.

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    • theolodis@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      So you’d recommend only eating animals until they are endangered and then eating other animals until they are no longer? Is that what you want to express?

      Or are you arguing that some animals are more sentient than others (e.g. mammals vs mussels), and we should switch to eating snails and mussels only, because of that?

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  • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s it? I was hoping to see at least 10 trillion animals killed this year…

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• big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Plants don’t want to be eaten. Plants don’t want to be eaten. Plants don’t want to be eaten. Plants don’t want to be eaten. Plants don’t want to be eaten. Plants don’t want to be eaten. Plants don’t want to be eaten.

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  • theolodis@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    To be completely fair, some plants actually produce fruits with the intent of them being eaten, because that’s their way of Zoochorie/Hemerochorie

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• Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Plants that humans wouldnt be able to digest efficiently anyway, unlesss you are talking about the more bourgeois meats

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  • theolodis@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Like soy and corn, which famously can’t be digested by humans.

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    • hans@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      people don’t want to eat field corn, but the soy that is given to livestock is mostly the waste product from pressing soybeans for oil

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