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minus-squareTheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down3·22 days agoExcept that you’re eating way more plants if you eat animals than if you just eat plants, as animals eat lots of plants.
minus-squaredaniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·22 days agoDepends on the animal. Home raised chicken, for instance, can almost live on human lefts. Insects also eat things that humans really do not consume, for instance.
minus-squarevivendi@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·22 days agoThey don’t really eat the same thing, do they?
minus-squareTeppichbrand@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·edit-221 days ago An average broiler chicken diet is composed of 42.8% corn and 26.4% soybeans for protein, and about 14% bakery meal. Source Edit: 25 million chicken are getting killed daily in the US.
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down8·22 days agoSo what you’re saying is that for each animal you eat, you save a lot of plants?
minus-squareTheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down3·22 days agoNo, for each animal you eat you’re eating lots of plants in a really inefficient - and needlessly cruel - way
minus-squareulterno@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·21 days agoThat would have been correct in the pre-domestication era.
Except that you’re eating way more plants if you eat animals than if you just eat plants, as animals eat lots of plants.
Depends on the animal. Home raised chicken, for instance, can almost live on human lefts.
Insects also eat things that humans really do not consume, for instance.
They don’t really eat the same thing, do they?
Source
Edit: 25 million chicken are getting killed daily in the US.
So what you’re saying is that for each animal you eat, you save a lot of plants?
No, for each animal you eat you’re eating lots of plants in a really inefficient - and needlessly cruel - way
That would have been correct in the pre-domestication era.