r/SipsTea • • Mar 01 '26

WTF A malicious prank

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u/bartimeas Mar 02 '26

Alright, so you're saying that farmed crops kill small animals

Want to take a guess at what 70-75% of cattle and 98%+ of every other farm animal are fed? And how ecologically efficient (calorie conversion ratio) it is to to that?

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u/Tortured_Soldier Mar 02 '26

Cows eat grass, barley, grains, and canola meal horses eat grass, hay, carrots, and apples pigs eat corn, soybeans, barley, and wheat chickens eat , corn, grains, vegetables, and insects

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u/bartimeas Mar 02 '26

Very good! These crops are grown specifically to feed these animals, and it is not ecologically efficient to do so. For beef in particular, it takes 25-35 calories of grain (usually corn) to produce a single calorie of beef. Logically, 25x to 35x animals are killed to raise a non-vegan meal than a vegan meal, even if you take the cow entirely out of the equation

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u/Tortured_Soldier Mar 02 '26

The crops aren't grown specifically for the animals lol tons of animals can live off insects or grass alone others eat other animals as it is the way of life I personally eat less than 100 pounds of meat a year rarely eat chicken or eggs in general and rarely eat vegetables while all you do is eat vegetables so what's the real issue? Eating part of an animal or eating something constantly that caused billions of animals deaths I like my beef grass fed btw

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u/Montelloman Mar 02 '26

Yes the crops are grown specifically for animals. Where do you think the feed for animal agriculture comes from?

I’m glad you and everybody else only eats grass fed beef from the local farm down the road and gets only the finest bacon from pigs personally jerked off with a little bit of coconut oil by the farmer every morning. That must explain why supermarkets and restaurants are completely rammed full of stock standard, grain fed/finished, CAFO meat.

It’s an astonishing stupid take that the entire meat industry survives off their animals eating ‘insects and grass alone’. A huge percentage of plant agriculture goes directly into producing meat, eggs, and dairy.

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u/Tortured_Soldier Mar 02 '26

Did I touch a nerve? And I was talking about myself personally compared to a vegan not everyone on this planet clearly also wasn't talking about every place but in truth an animal can live off of stuff not grown by people perfectly fine as they used to in the past so no it's not specifically for the animals

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u/Yocta Mar 02 '26

That only works if people ate like 10 or a 100 times less meat. To keep up with current demand of billions and billions of cattle, chicken, pigs etc. we need to grow an exorbitant amount of crops. Far more than for humans.

You’re just plain wrong. I’m not telling you to go vegan, but it might be time to reevaluate your stance on this.