You mean, compared to what goes to the market for people?
I don’t eat much of not industrial agriculture products, even local farms only produce fruits, and I would say they are also industrial (not sure where is the line)
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match@pawb.social 6 months ago
counterpoint: industrial agriculture exists mostly to sustain animal products
sukhmel@programming.dev 6 months ago
Bademantel@feddit.de 6 months ago
Cows and other farm animals need a lot of food:
More than three-quarters of global agricultural land is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world’s protein and calories.
OfCourseNot@fedia.io 6 months ago
As per the article two thirds of that 'agricultural land' is graze-lands, so like a 12.5% of that agricultural land is actually farmland dedicated to feed livestock.
sukhmel@programming.dev 6 months ago
I see, 25% is still not too little, I expected this to be less than 10% based on how you phrased the first comment. But you’re right, it’s possible to greatly reduce strain on land
flora_explora@beehaw.org 6 months ago
Not only that. But our agriculture is so centered around animals that we also have a huge surplus of manure (the animals’ feces, horn shavings, basically anything left of them) that we then use on all kinds of plant crops. It is so baked into the system that it will be a long way before we can really get a animal-free agriculture…
zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
The animal products are also just more industrial scale, subsidized farming, too.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 6 months ago
This is certainly true for our modern agriculture today. But is this really true for any possible industrial agriculture? Couldn’t we also have a plant based industrial agriculture leaving domesticated animals out of the equation altogether? Sure, we are a far way off from that. But I think it would be achievable and that we should aim for it.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
That’s a really good counterpoint.