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• QuaffPotions@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes, and odds are they are asking as a way to bring up the idea of how many animals are killed in order to harvest plant crops. If you had bothered to go to the link, it would have at least somewhat answered your question because the short version is: fundamentally, significantly less than the amount of animals killed to produce meat.

  All it takes is to think it through. If harvesting crops kills a lot of animals (which as the link shows, is already significantly less than some assholes made it up to be), then raising animals for food automatically kills even more animals because it takes way more crops to feed the animals that are raised for meat or dairy, than it takes to just feed humans directly.

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  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you had bothered to go to the link,

    Ed is quoting some pretty misleading statistics to support your point. if this is the best that you have, you might want to reconsider your position.

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    • QuaffPotions@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Would you care to elaborate on what’s misleading about these statistics?

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      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        about 85% of all soybeans are pressed for oil for human uses. but a soybean is only about 20% oil altogether. that leaves 69% of the soybean as industrial waste. feeding that industrial waste to animals is actually conserving resources.

        so it’s not even true that the land used to make food for animals isn’t used to make food for people: it’s the same land.

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  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    your assumption of bad faith is itself bad faith

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    • QuaffPotions@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This isn’t formal debate school. Welcome to the real internet.

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      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        this is a thought-terminating cliche

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  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you had bothered to go to the link

    like I don’t know who earthling ed is

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