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The basic problem is that to get 1000 calories of beef, you need to feed the cow something like 10,000 calories. So growing a cow is actually growing an entire field of wheat/corn/etc., then feeding it to the cow, then eating the cow.

Farming all of those crops for the animals takes up a lot of land, consumes fresh water, produces wastes, and uses oil/gas (for farm equipment directly, or to produce things like fertilizers) which produces co2. Cows also produce methane (that’s the fart thing) which is a bad greenhouse gas.

You could just eat the wheat/corn/etc. directly (most of the time) and skip the meat step therefore saving a massive amount of environmental impact.

Meat sure is tasty though.

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goforliftoff@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I remember driving through Iowa and seeing vast fields of corn and learning that the majority of that corn was not even destined for human consumption. That kinda blew my mind.

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- rog@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Luckily there is still enough left over to poison the population with high fructose corn syrup
  
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  - RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    If America was a food, it would be sugar and high fructose corn syrup.
    
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- RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You wanna know another fact? Not all corn can be consumed by humans. There is actually corn that can only be eaten by animals like cows.
  
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YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
But growing a cow that eats the grasses makes it for I get the meat and the vegetables all at once and it tastes great /s

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RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Plus is the fact that not all plants have the right amount of vitamins and minerals necessary to maintain the human body like meat does. Although it is possible, it does require research and monitoring to ensure that your getting all the nutrients you need. And yes, meat just tastes good.

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- BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  What kind of bullshit are you peddling?
  
  If you’re discussing complete proteins then all it takes is rice and beans. Not particularly difficult given that about half the world population survives on that without much meat.
  
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