usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.ml · 1 year agoThis land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry. | Almost half of the continental US is used for meat production. There’s something better we could do with it.www.vox.comexternal-linkmessage-square129fedilinkarrow-up1498arrow-down131cross-posted to: environment@beehaw.org
arrow-up1467arrow-down1external-linkThis land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry. | Almost half of the continental US is used for meat production. There’s something better we could do with it.www.vox.comusernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square129fedilinkcross-posted to: environment@beehaw.org
minus-squareusernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·1 year agoFrom 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
From the article
But not only that it also requires crop land for plant-based diets. From a different source
https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets