• stoly@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    This is the Earth saying NO MORE. The world would be a better place if all the food used to feed livestock went to humans instead.

        • That Weird Vegan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          14 days ago

          it’s almost as if… we could grow something else. We’d actually free up a not-insignificant amount of agriculture land if we all ate plant based.

          • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            14 days ago

            we use the soybeans for oil. the soy meal byproduct would be industrial waste of we didn’t feed it to livestock

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            14 days ago

            I reject your nightmare vision of 16 billion humans. 8 is already twice too many.

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                14 days ago

                Long term, it will. Evolution is still happening, there weren’t any humans a million years ago, and there won’t be any in another million.

                Shorter term, humanity’s main resource that allowed us to reach 8 billion in the first place is running out.

                Unfortunately we’re still headed towards 10 billion by mid century, and I shudder to envision that horror as I may still be alive then.