According to the debate, they had their reasons. But still – when one hundred and eighty six nations say one thing, and two say another, you have to wonder about the two.

  • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
    12·
    3 months ago

    No I will NOT fucking let you end it on this. The whole ‘meat leads to food scarcity’ is absolute twenty year old rancid bullshit filled with the insidious corn kernels of deceit.

    We throw enough food away untouched to feed every single hungry person in America twice over, our food scarcity is entirely artificial.

    Are you aware that the U.S. government forces farmers to let food rot to keep prices sable?

    Do you magically think that if we stopped animal agriculture tomorrow that food will magically become cheap for the needy?

    No it won’t, because the government will AGAIN AS IT HAS EVERY YEAR just order more farmers to not sell their crops.

    This is why we hate vegans, it isn’t just about your empty moral self-superiority, it isn’t just your poorly thought out but loudly shouted schemes, it’s all that added to the fact that you actively go out of your way to find disinformation that appeals to your values, and then choose to believe it regardless of any outside facts.

    I cannot even begin to relate the contempt I feel for people who actively forward disproven ‘knowledge’ with zero regard to its accuracy.

    • HoornseBakfiets@feddit.nl
      2·
      3 months ago

      I’ll attempt to give you some proven information

      Croplands make up one-third of agricultural land, and grazing land makes up the remaining two-thirds.3

      However, only half of the world’s croplands are used to grow crops that are consumed by humans directly. We use a lot of land to grow crops for biofuels and other industrial products, and an even bigger share is used to feed livestock.4

      If we combine global grazing land with the amount of cropland used for animal feed, livestock accounts for 80% of agricultural land use. The vast majority of the world’s agricultural land is used to raise livestock for meat and dairy.

      https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture

      How we go about forcing the food industry to focus on feeding instead purely on profits, is largely a policy (corruption) matter. Whilst diet; individuals have the power right now to make a difference. Systemic food waste is not the only point of inefficiency we have in our food supply system.

      On top of that the less government funding the meat&dairy industry gets the more is available for vegetable crops or other social services.

      Just because I have a different perspective doesn’t mean I’m not agreeing with you in terms of waste inefficiency.