Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store

• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Can’t tell if you’re making a pun or being serious :)

  In case you’re being serious, I’m pretty sure we’d need magnitudes more land and methane emissions for butter.

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  • SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The cow is not killed when butter is harvested. But they do need to be fed, so I’m not sure about that.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Animals take up a ton more space than do plants. I’m sure you’ve heard all the arguments at some point for moving away from meat. I’m not going to rehash them (especially since I’m a meat eater), but it’s just a question of how many magnitudes more land cows would use, not if they would use more land.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The grass and/or grain the cow eats does though.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I was being serious; figure up the tons per hectare per year of butter production.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Google says 250kg per hectare, So about 6% of palm oil productivity. About 15x the land usage.

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