This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry.
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Almost half of the continental US is used for meat production. There’s something better we could do with it.
  • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    From the article

    But not all agriculture is equally land-intensive. Meat-heavy diets require far more land than low-meat and vegetarian diets.

    But not only that it also requires crop land for plant-based diets. From a different source

    If everyone shifted to a plant-based diet we would reduce global land use for agriculture by 75%.

    […]

    If we would shift towards a more plant-based diet we don’t only need less agricultural land overall, we also need less cropland.

    https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets