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animals are fed parts of plants that people can’t or won’t eat. all of the studies about the ecological impacts ignore this fact and then attribute the water used to produce, say, cotton to beef.

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fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Today in the developed world, meat animals such as cattle and hogs are mostly fed fodder — not a byproduct of human food, but rather crops grown specifically as animal feed. Farmers who grow those crops know how much water they’re using, because they keep track of their irrigation needs.

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- commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fodder#Types
  
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- commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Some agricultural byproducts fed to animals may be considered unsavory by humans.
  
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- commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  even the particle you linked says they are fed silage and that the legumes they are fed are from spent malt.
  
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matlag@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Just how many times did you copy-paste that comment?! Are you a bot or a lobbyist by any chance?

You think that we started producing some grains, and one day we realized we had too much by-products and one smart guy said: “let’s start a cows herd so that they’ll eat these”. Sounds legit. Especially if you consider that eating beef the way we do is very recent in human history, and still inexistent in many parts of the world. Poor folks must be buried under the by-products…

So, since I don’t think farmers are total morons, I would rather imagine they would produce different kind of food, such as leguminous.

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