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animals mostly eat parts of plants that people can't or won't eat, so in that way they help us conserve resources.
Haha what the hell are you talking about, a third of cropland is literally dedicated to growing livestock feed. Livestock also directly contributes 7% of greenhouse gas emissions by shitting alone.
This is directly from the FAO: https://www.fao.org/3/ar591e/ar591e.pdf
that's not what your source says. and all of agriculture is about 20% of our emissions, but i'd be fine if it were 100%: we need to eat.
Dude, it's one of the first things written on the first page. Come on now, this is embarassing.
Jesus Christ, so close, read ten more words. Do you think you can do that buddy?
but not exclusively for livestock feed production. it's not "dedicated".
This is what this user posted and embarrassingly deleted before writing the comment above:
If you can't even be bothered to read a full quote that was handed to you, you aren't discussing in good faith. You can go ahead and fuck off with your hand wavy non-scientific bullshit. Learn to read a source and provide a proper rebuttal with evidence instead of spamming nonsense.
Edit: Oh look I broke the spambot lol
this is clearly a bad-faith attempt to avoid the fact that im right: in feeding animals the unwanted parts of our crops, animals actually help conserve water.
calling me a spambot doesn't change whether i'm right, or you're literate.
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You can go ahead and fuck off with your hand wavy non-scientific bullshit.
Learn to read a source and provide a proper rebuttal with evidence instead of spamming nonsense.
I feel like this is overlooked, that animals eat stuff we can't/won't- like grass or discarded food.