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    Haha what the hell are you talking about, a third of cropland is literally dedicated to growing livestock feed. Livestock also directly contributes 7% of greenhouse gas emissions by shitting alone.

    This is directly from the FAO: https://www.fao.org/3/ar591e/ar591e.pdf

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      1 year ago

      a third of cropland is literally dedicated to growing livestock feed

      that’s not what your source says. and all of agriculture is about 20% of our emissions, but i’d be fine if it were 100%: we need to eat.

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        Twenty-six percent of the Planet’s ice-free land is used for livestock grazing and 33 percent of croplands are used for livestock feed production.

        Dude, it’s one of the first things written on the first page. Come on now, this is embarassing.

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          1 year ago

          33 percent of croplands are used for livestock feed production.

          but not exclusively for livestock feed production. it’s not “dedicated”.

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            This is what this user posted and embarrassingly deleted before writing the comment above:

            grazing lands aren’t croplands

            If you can’t even be bothered to read a full quote that was handed to you, you aren’t discussing in good faith. You can go ahead and fuck off with your hand wavy non-scientific bullshit. Learn to read a source and provide a proper rebuttal with evidence instead of spamming nonsense.

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              Learn to read a source and provide a proper rebuttal with evidence instead of spamming nonsense.

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              1 year ago

              this is clearly a bad-faith attempt to avoid the fact that im right: in feeding animals the unwanted parts of our crops, animals actually help conserve water.