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What a loaded question.
Outside of the fact that a single cows life provides about 900 meals for humans, and the scraps left over make boots that last for a decade and also feed our cats and dogs. Plus, it's delicious.
Imagine how many people you could feed if we would just eat what we fed the animals!
We can't live on hay and corn. Cows need several stomachs to do it.
Also, getting enough protein and creatine and other vitamins as a vegan is a hell of a lot of work and doesn't taste as good.
Humans are animals, and the type of animals we are is omnivores. Not herbivores.
You start.
Let me know how a diet of grass works out for you, your digestive system, your immune system, and overall health.
Well I've been vegan for a long time and am healthier than many animal abusers, so it's going quite well for me :)
I don't believe you know enough animal abusers to make such a claim
Of course I can, everyone around me is eating animals ;)
that's not abuse
Right, the systematic torture of millions of animals is absolutely not animal abuse.
Can you finish this documentary: https://watchdominion.org/ (YouTube)
Or will you keep your eyes closed?
the audio production in this propaganda piece is some of the worst I've ever encountered. it seems designed to torture the audience.
it's not torture, and your propaganda film doesn't change the fact that eating meat isn't animal abuse
calling me names doesn't change the truth
Yeah so, the amount of meals is correct. But that's about it. I mean, I can't say about the taste, to each their own, but one kg of cow meat needs two dozen kg of grain.
That's about as inefficient as it gets.
As for the leather, the industry doesn't like products that last a decade, so it isn't actually using the leather in such a way. Industrial leather boots last a year tops.
Finally, pet food is made out of discarded cuts of meat, the uglies, etc. But also lots of cereals, and vegetables.
So we could really afford eating less meat. It isn't good for anything. Not for us, not for the other species (certainly not for the cows, that get often half assed butchered in a hasty way because of quotas and profit), and absolutely not for the ecosystem.
But I guess the taste is all that matters.
If you're doing it [very] wrong.
Cows are not all fed on grain. A lot of cows are ranched on land that would not be suitable for growing grain crops.
Or even land that is suitable for growing grain, but they're kept being fed almost entirely on grass, for better quality, better health (and less cow farts, lol), rather than cost cutting nasty to bulk them up.
Well, if we're talking pure food-production efficiency, then if the land is capable of growing grain then it's probably better to grow grain there and feed the grain directly to humans.
But upvote anyway for responding to a year-and-a-half-old thread, this is the oldest necro response I've received yet on the Fediverse. :)
Well in that case perhaps we should do just algae and worms.
Or maybe we should consider more than "pure food-production efficiency" in such a crude manner.
Perhaps we should consider nutrition and health (of those eating the food, and the environment), more than just crude bulk quantity.
Grain based diet would ruin our immune systems, and the health of the soil, without animal fertilizer.
Billions of trees every year get cut down to make space for cattle pastures, now tell me how destroying entire ecosystems that have been there for potentially thousands of years is worth some particular meat.
Yeah. Different issue.
Cant paint all beef with that bad brush.