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Realistically, we have enough food to feed everyone without doing that, but I get what you’re saying.
Ah, so we just need to feed all the humans like livestock, problem solved!
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Though the farms world need to start growing different crops…
Very different. The extent of the infrastructure changes that would be required to switch a large system from producing and distributing feedstock for animals to produce for humans would be massive.
I’m not saying that that is insurmountable, just that it’s not simple.
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Er, well, by “feed like livestock” I meant like this:
https://thecounter.org/alternative-feed-not-alternative-facts/
https://www.newsweek.com/cow-eat-skittles-dairy-farmer-reveal-reason-1698035
E.g. the cheapest, lowest quality bulk starches and proteins you can get, mixed into a monotonous uniform gruel.
If you had the choice between that and dying of hunger you would eat it.
O… k… why is the choice between that and dying of hunger? false dichotomy much?
You’re the one who approached the suggestion this way instead of extrapolating that if we didn’t use that land to feed livestock we could grow other stuff on it.
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It’s almost as if he’s trying to evoke the horrendous animal abuses inherent to factory farming in order to pretend that feeding the hungry would somehow be worse than letting them starve.
It’s a fucking sick and deranged position to take, frankly — what we should actually conclude from that comparison isn’t that we shouldn’t feed the poor, but that we should feed people and also improve conditions for livestock.
but that we should feed people and also improve conditions for livestock.
Actually, this basically was my point - to acknowledge that most people would object to being fed the way the animals they eat are fed (and also housed, and otherwise cared for) but it’s also important to recognize that the problem is not as simple as simply changing what crops are grown for what purpose. Land used to grow feedstock is not necessarily suitable for growing food that humans eat, and beyond that there’s a massive infrastructure issue (storage and transportation of bulk crops like alfalfa is a lot simpler than, say, tomatoes or bell peppers or apples).
Why did you assume my previous comment was malicious? is that your default reaction?
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Well yeah, but if we had a system of equitable sharing of resources, how would the oligarchs hoard more wealth and power?
That sign has Soviet Union written all over it!
