• theolodis@feddit.org
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    20 hours ago

    Wanna guess how many plants are wasted to feed animals, only for humans to eat them?

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      5 hours 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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      5 hours 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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        4 hours 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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      9 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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          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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          5 hours 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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        8 hours ago

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

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          4 hours ago

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

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            1 hour 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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          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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            5 hours 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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      18 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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        6 hours 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