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This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry. | Almost half of the continental US is used for meat production. There’s something better we could do with it. (www.vox.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

A lot less than farming meat which requires all the cost of growing that and ensuring the animals are fed and watered until slaughtering.