• dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    What’s the environmental cost of growing all that soy, corn and oats for an US wide vegetarian diet?

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      1 year ago

      A lot less than farming meat which requires all the cost of growing that and ensuring the animals are fed and watered until slaughtering.

    • 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