• Bademantel@lemmy.world
      205·
      10 days ago

      Exactly, that’s why this is such a lame take. Roughly 3/4 of all agricultural land could be restored by switching to a plant based diet.

      • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
        101·
        10 days ago

        Not to mention by ending (or changing the structure of) subsidies for farmers (in the US, at least). Because of the way the subsidies are paid out, farmers are incentivized to grow crops like soybeans and corn that feed livestock vs. crops that people eat, because they’re more heavily subsidized.

        There’s a lot of articles about this topic out there but in the interest of providing a source, here’s one example.

  • KombatWombat@lemmy.world
    151·
    10 days ago

    The goal of veganism is to minimize harm. It is obviously unrealistic to expect to feed 7 billion humans without harming other animals in the process. Feed for animals destined for slaughter requires much more farm land than it would take to grow crops for direct human consumption, so even just by the metric of preventing harm to wild animals a vegan diet comes out ahead. I expect a vegetarian diet would be in-between them.

  • rnercle@sh.itjust.works
    51·
    10 days ago

    rodents would hear the tractor instead of waiting for it to come behind them to try to escape. Their eyesight is so terrible that they won’t even see a tractor anyway.

    as a gardener who is a lot lighter and quiter than a tractor, i never risk harming one of these tunnellers. They know where i am and where they shouldn’t be if i happen to be digging.

    I’ve never seen a tractor racing through the fields either. They are slow.

    what kind of a stupid fantasy is this?