• sexy_peach@feddit.orgOP
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        3 months ago

        There are a lot of uses for land that can’t grow food crops. It could be renaturalized for example.

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          3 months ago

          I’m not sure if you’re aware, but the current human population cannot be sustained using only food grown on arable land

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            3 months ago

            It absolutely could. Not with the current diet but if there was a shift to less meat then we could substantially reduce the amount of land used in food production.

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              3 months ago

              If we switched to a 100% plant based diet, there would be a strict decrease in the amount of available food. Animals eat things besides food that could have gone to humans. Land that could be used for growing crops is rarely used for raising livestock.