[ThinkBeat]

> >Beef cattle use nearly 60% of the world’s agricultural land but account for less than 2% of global calories and 5% of global protein consumed

I provide a study from the National Library of Medicine. This study provides a nuanced view of the topic here, and provides a lot of data.

If you did read the scientific study I linked to, then you would now know that land that "food animals" occupy is often not at all suited for other forms of agriculture.

You would also know that various food animals can be fed and raised on waste from other agricultural processes that humans could not consume.

That is why I stated "It is more complicated than what the original soundbite line portrayed it as.

Does that help?

[joshuahaglund]

> If you did read the scientific study I linked to, then you would now know that land that "food animals" occupy is often not at all suited for other forms of agriculture.

How much of a cow's diet do you believe comes from resources that would not be otherwise useful to humans?

Cattle farming uses most of the water in the west. https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23655640/colorado-river-wa...

Your image of cattle grazing out on the range is out of touch with reality. Nearly all beef consumed in America starts with diverting water that could go towards directly feeding humans

We just consume too much beef