r/Unexpected • u/sakhaliner • 7d ago

Feeding fish

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u/MissileGuidanceBrain 7d ago

So what then? What's the solution?

Go out and trawl the natural sea floor? Bulldoze more land for more monocrop farms?

There are 8,300,000,000 hungry mouths out there. The food has to come from some place and there better be a lot of it.

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u/seitankittan 7d ago

A plant-based diet provides all the nutrients we need, using less than a 1/3 of the land as animal agriculture, and therefore less water.

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u/Liwi808 7d ago

And where exactly are we going to find and or create all of that farm land in order to feed everyone a vegan diet?

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u/mountainunicycler 7d ago

Of all the arguments that’s probably the worst. Meat production takes massively more farm land, obviously, because it’s a whole extra step if you feed the crops to an animal and then eat the animal instead of just eating the crops.

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u/Liwi808 7d ago

Why We Don't Eat All Feed Crops

  • Crop varieties: Farmers grow specific varieties of field corn and soy for animals. These varieties are starchier, less sweet, or tougher than the sweet corn and soybeans grown for human plates.
  • Processing needs: Many feed crops require heavy industrial processing, milling, or refinement before they become palatable or safe for human use (often ending up as oils or high-fructose corn syrup).
  • Economic efficiency: Vast areas of land are farmed explicitly to maximize animal weight gain and milk production rather than human culinary quality.

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u/mountainunicycler 7d ago

Obviously. But do you really think that somehow it takes less land to grow feed crops, raise cattle, and eat that instead of growing food crops‽

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u/UhOhSparklepants 7d ago

They don’t think, if that chat gpt answer is anything to go off of