• VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    These animal farmers are making famines worse by driving up demand for cropland and input allocation towards feed crops. The more money is shoved into the animal farming industry, the more famine there will be in the world.

    edit: if you feed food to food, you’re wasting food. This isn’t some obscure fact. The free market on inputs and even on land allocates the resources to who pays more - and subsidies allow the animal industry to pay more, to buy more land, to buy more inputs.

    The future is plant-based. Anyone who doesn’t want people to die of hunger agrees with this.

    https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1713820115

    Global farmers facing fertiliser sticker shock may cut use, raising food security risks https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/global-farmers-facing-fertiliser-sticker-shock-may-cut-use-raising-food-security-2021-12-09/

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      8 months ago

      Animal farmers are much more likely to prevent this specific famine - when you’re displaced from your home, there is no chance you’ll harvest and bring your crops. There is a chance you can bring some animals with you.

      I understand your point, but there’s a time and place for that, and that is absolutely not here.

      • sizzler@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        This is the time, any later and it’s too late.

        Stop pretending you are the voice of reason when really you’re just selfish and lazy.