• @ByGourou@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    There are a lot of calories lost when eating meat, because the animals burn calories by staying alive. So eating meat is like eating 15x times more calories from veggies. So everything bad for the environment about vegetarian consumption is true for meat too but in worse.

    And perfect is the enemy of good. Veggies aren’t perfect, but they’re far better than meat for the environment.

    Some of those are useless calories, we can’t eat grass and on some lands where only grass grows so cows are a way of using that grass, but that’s not the majority.

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      32 months ago

      most of what animals are fed are parts of plants people can’t or won’t eat, or grazed grass. in that way, we are conserving resources.

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          12 months ago

          no, you said those calories are wasted.

          • @ByGourou@sh.itjust.works
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            2 months ago

            Read more than the first sentence please

            “Some of those are useless calories, we can’t eat grass and on some lands where only grass grows so cows are a way of using that grass, but that’s not the majority.”

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              22 months ago

              most people don’t want to eat soy cake, or crop seconds, or spoilage. feeding that to livestock is a conservation of resources, not a waste.