Comment on Grim signs the globe is about to run short of food

osanna@lemmy.vg ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Then there’s all the food that gets thrown away, eaten by rats or just left to get plowed back into the field.

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• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  people eat two third of our global crop calories.

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  • rjwilliamson@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    *citation needed

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  • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Which is exactly what they said?

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    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      we feed most of that to the animals,

      no, it’s not

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      • rjwilliamson@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Improper grammar and also wrong

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      • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        They did.

        We make enough food to feed 10-12B people

        If we feed 8B but could feed 12B if we didn’t eat animals, that’s 12-8=4, 4B more people, and 4/12=1/3, or a third of our crops that could be used to feed people instead of animals. Which is right at the percentage of crops used for animal feed, ~36%.

        You are correct that they did use the word “most” instead of “much” which wasn’t as accurate as their math. I guess I focused more on their concrete descriptor while you went with the fuzzy one.

        Either way, the truth is certainly that we could mitigate the crop loss of climate change with a simple alteration of our diet, while we figure out where, when, and how to grow crops now. It likely won’t happen, but it’s possible.

        Unfortunately, just like with the current percentage of the population that is actively starving, the greater percentage in the future will likely just be forced to die, even though they can be easily fed.

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• FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Maybe one day we have the technology to torture vegetables and eat them.

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  • osanna@lemmy.vg ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I hope so. I’m vegan because i want to torture and murder carrots! Fucking carrots, i swear

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    • obelisk_complex@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The subterranean jerks thought they could trick us by turning orange! Purple bastards.

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      • No1@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’m rooting for the carrots.

        Ha. Haha. Bahahahahaha!

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah good luck with that. You really believe that will ever happen?

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