Comment by ErroneousBosh
6 days ago
You need livestock farming to have arable farming. Growing only plants is phenomenally destructive to the soil.
Every time you eat a "Beyond Meat" burger, you have permanently destroyed a patch of what used to be rain forest and is now crappy farmland about the size of a car parking space.
You need far far far more land for raising livestock for eating than for vegetables. Furthermore, we’re discussing vegan diets in general. No one is vegan and survives solely on Beyond Burgers.
Yes, but you don't use land you could use for arable crops for raising animals all the time.
Also, if you don't turn some of the land you use for arable crops for pasture every few years and chuck some ruminants (cows, preferably, sheep will work too but you need to add lime afterwards) then the soil dies.
Do you know how to grow food?
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