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• x4740N@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wanna know how many of those plants are waste product only and plants only suitable for animal consumption

  Do you see a human eating hay

  Cut the greenwashing crap

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  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is hay the only thing that can grow on that land? Could we grow food humans like instead?

    You do need to think things through a bit more than that.

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• hans@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • theolodis@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    According to the Soy bean producers of North Carolina, the soymeal is a by product of the soy oil production, where a small portion is used for Tofu and Soy milk and the majority becomes animal feed: ncsoy.org/media-resources/uses-of-soybeans/

    So all of the soy protein given to animals would indeed be digestible by humans.

    Now it might be true that a lot of people don’t want to eat Tofu Tempe and Soy milk, but we could as well plant any other vegetable instead of Soy beans, and who could resist some delicious Brussel sprouts for example???

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    • hans@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      if we don’t plant soybeans, we won’t get soybean oil

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      • theolodis@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well, in that case we could just mix the soy protein in other foods, I guess.

        But I’d also suspect that we wouldn’t need the quantities of soy oil, and we just use that because of the synergy with the livestock food.

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• Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • x4740N@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You do realise it’s waste product not suitable for human consumption

      For example waste spy product from the production of your soy milk which also uses a ton of water and drives deforestation

      The farms also kill farm pests with use of farming machines, pesticides and shotguns

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      • theolodis@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        According to the Soy bean producers of North Carolina, the soymeal is a by product of the soy oil production, where a small portion is used for Tofu and Soy milk and the majority becomes animal feed: ncsoy.org/media-resources/uses-of-soybeans/

        So all of the soy protein given to animals would indeed be digestible by humans.

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    • hans@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • theolodis@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        According to the Soy bean producers of North Carolina, the soymeal is a by product of the soy oil production, where a small portion is used for Tofu and Soy milk and the majority becomes animal feed: ncsoy.org/media-resources/uses-of-soybeans/

        So all of the soy protein given to animals would indeed be digestible by humans.

        Concerning the corn, we could just plant sweet corn instead, or any other plant really. Or what would prevent us from doing that?

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• aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • hans@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    we? I don’t. stop it.

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    • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I used the royal we.

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  • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well you should probably stop eating fish then, because trawling absolutely does kill dolphins. Its called by-catch.

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      • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Do you understand what am example is? Most fishing trawlers don’t fish in the Amazonas river. So you are somewhat wrong.

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    • theolodis@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Just saying their figure is completely irrelevant since not all are created equally.

        We should probably substitute meat by eating more mollusks. They are rather eco friendly. And insects, probably.

        A chicken is also much smaller than a cow.

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  • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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