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Limits to sustainable animal consumption (view source)
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(Created page with "Vegans rightly point out that meat-containing diets require more land (and thus more deforestation) since feeding animals is a net loss of protein and calories. But... Pro-meat folks rightly point out that some land is only suited for grazing animals. This raises a more important question: :If farm animals only ever ate... :* grasses and other plants from pasture & range, and :* the parts of food crops that humans ''can't''...") |
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:* grasses and other plants from pasture & range, and | :* grasses and other plants from pasture & range {{x|especially from biodiverse natural lands that keep a lot of carbon stored in the roots of plants}}, and | ||
:* the parts of food crops that humans ''can't'' eat {{x|for example corn cobs after the kernels have been removed (ruminants can digest certain kinds of fibrous matter that other species can't)}}, | :* the parts of food crops that humans ''can't'' eat {{x|for example corn cobs after the kernels have been removed (ruminants can digest certain kinds of fibrous matter that other species can't)}}, | ||
:and never... | :and never... | ||
:* human-edible food crops {{x|including corn and soy as those could be made into flour}}, nor | :* human-edible food crops {{x|including corn and soy as those could be made into flour}} {{x|''Grey area'': Perhaps also include "spent grains" and "fryer waste oil" because the original materials were human-edible, and the downgrading was a choice}}, nor | ||
:* crops grown specifically for animal feed, | :* crops grown specifically for animal feed {{x|''Grey area'': Perhaps also include the more superficial types of "pasture" that are monoculture-like and don't keep a lot of permanent roots. The exact definition can be specified in the answer to the question.}}, | ||
:how much animal protein {{x|from meat, milk and/or eggs etc}} could be produced? | :how much animal protein {{x|from meat, milk and/or eggs etc}} could be produced? | ||