cynfinnegan:

pearls-and-polowraps:

dairyisntscary:

agro-carnist:

poweredbyplantscr:

Animal agriculture is basically using food to make less food so that privileged people can eat decomposing flesh and then waste half of it. 🤷🏽‍♀️

I honestly don’t think distributing corn stalks and wheat byproducts to poor people is gonna help much but go ahead and tell me more about how you don’t know what “decomposing flesh” is.

Let them eat grass! Uwu

To expand on the points that @agro-carnist and @dairyisntscary are trying to make…

So very little goes to waste in the agricultural sector. The “waste” products from corn, soy, wheat, rice, cotton, brewer’s grains, and various other crops all have applications as animal feedstuffs. In turn, the “waste” products produced by animals often return to the cycle as fertilizers, calcium and other nutritive supplements, textiles, pet foods, and treats/chews. There’s even new research that suggests that animal fat could be used to produce biodiesel or a more environmentally friendly plastic than that which is currently made from petroleum products, and scientists are currently working toward finding other uses.

Whether you like it or not, crop production and animal management have a symbiotic relationship in much of the world. Don’t believe me? Let’s look at the research:

Animal Agriculture: Symbiosis, Cultural, or Ethical Conflict? 

Symbiosis of Plants, Animals, and Microbes

Eco-efficient approaches to land management: a case for increased integration of crop and animal production systems

Agricultural sustainability: concepts, principles, and evidence

Mixed crop-livestock farming (an international study prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

This is just a small sample of the evidence suggesting that livestock are beneficial to the production of plant-based foods at almost every stage, and vice versa. One cannot thrive without the other.

Science has proven that a strict vegan diet has a higher carbon footprint than a more omnivorous one, and herd animals, wild or domesticated, produce less greenhouse gasses than even the most gas-efficient automobile, yet we and they are the ones who get the bad rap from vegans.

agro-carnist:

rainbowsnakes:

agro-carnist:

dairyisntscary:

tbh the whole “we should just feed the poor what we feed animals” leaves such a bad taste in my mouth. Like yeah Susan feed the poor feed-grade instead of food-grade soybeans, orange peels, field corn and stalks, that’ll keep em from starvation and give em a good quality life. They can have the leftovers of what privileged people eat

This whole argument just proves radveegs have never seen animal feed or how animal feed is produced. Like, people won’t eat the brown parts of a banana what makes you think they wanna eat corn stalks or bone meal or cottonseeds? I’ve seen the feedstuff in storage and lemme tell you folks, it is NOT appetizing and I promise it is not palatable.

I agree with parts of this but feel it misses the main point of that particular argument against animal agriculture.

Animal feed may sometimes utlize parts of crops or by-products that people don’t eat but a lot of the land or crops used for animal feed (such as concentrate for pigs and poultry)

still could have been used to feed humans. 

Land sutible for grazing can’t always be used for arable farming so its not as simple as many radveegs make out- Doing away with all animal agriculture wouldnt necessiarly be GOOD for the environment as it can potentially be managed well. 

Regardless, intensive animal agriculture is generally not very sustainable and animal feed is a huge part of that problem. Our current food supply chains are quite wasteful and there is a great potential for mitigation within that, but ultimatley a lot needs to CHANGE to improve both animal welfare and the sustainability of agriculture.   

A lot of the land used to grow animal feed is also used to grow human food. Commercial farms typically grow primarily for people, while sending away the leftovers to animal farms. The only time I’ve really seen land being used to grow crops solely for animals (at least in the US) was on small family farms. Feed used for livestock is more often than not byproducts from some other industry.