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kandoh@reddthat.com 5 weeks agoYeah, I think the total land used for cattle equals the entire landmass of north america too.
I love beef, I love hamburgers, but it’s pretty clearly unsustainable.
I suspect beef prices are only going to go up and they’ll never come down ever again.
otterpops@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
this can’t be true
kandoh@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
I was wrong
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It’s actually the size of north and south America
otterpops@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
that map uses flawed methodology it counts all crop land as feed land most crops are grown for human food oil fiber or fuel the parts fed to animals are just secondary co products feeding residual meal and pulp to livestock avoids waste
kandoh@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Okay, so roughly speaking, after removing cropland whose main output is human food, oil, fiber, or fuel, and grazing land that could realistically be converted to such cropland, you’re left with 49 Texases of land worldwide used for making beef.
www.fao.org/4/ar591e/ar591e.pdf