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minus-squareRyan@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·4 months agoStraight out not the case. lots of animals are on farmable land. Also animals eat lots of our crops eg 80% of the worlds soy. Here’s one (of many possible ones) reference stating that we would only need 25% of the current agricultural land if the world went vegan. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/01/28/if-everyone-were-vegan-only-a-quarter-of-current-farmland-would-be-needed
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoyour economist article obviously relies on poore-nemecek 2018, which is a paper i wouldn’t trust to tell me the CO2E of CO2
minus-squareRyan@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoThere’s lots of other sources. do you have a counter source?
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agono. I’m attacking the methodology of poore-nemecek
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months ago animals eat lots of our crops eg 80% of the worlds soy. the vast majority of the soy eaten by animals is the waste product from soybean oil production. that’s a conservation of resources, and it’s a good thing.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agohttps://ourworldindata.org/images/published/Global-soy-production-to-end-use.png
minus-squareRyan@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoSo your data set shows 76% used for animals and 4% for industry. That’s very similar to the figures I referred to.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoyou can see that the vast majority of the uses are from soy meal or soy cake. that’s the industrial waste from making soybean oil. exactly as I said.
Straight out not the case. lots of animals are on farmable land. Also animals eat lots of our crops eg 80% of the worlds soy. Here’s one (of many possible ones) reference stating that we would only need 25% of the current agricultural land if the world went vegan. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/01/28/if-everyone-were-vegan-only-a-quarter-of-current-farmland-would-be-needed
your economist article obviously relies on poore-nemecek 2018, which is a paper i wouldn’t trust to tell me the CO2E of CO2
There’s lots of other sources. do you have a counter source?
no. I’m attacking the methodology of poore-nemecek
the vast majority of the soy eaten by animals is the waste product from soybean oil production. that’s a conservation of resources, and it’s a good thing.
do you have a reference for this?
https://ourworldindata.org/images/published/Global-soy-production-to-end-use.png
So your data set shows 76% used for animals and 4% for industry. That’s very similar to the figures I referred to.
you can see that the vast majority of the uses are from soy meal or soy cake. that’s the industrial waste from making soybean oil. exactly as I said.