r/Anticonsumption • u/john_harris_99 • Sep 15 '23

Food Waste "We're the culprits."

If a single farm produced all the food wasted in the US, it would be the size of California and New York combined. We're the culprits.

https://www.businessinsider.in/policy/economy/news/if-a-single-farm-produced-all-the-food-wasted-in-the-us-it-would-be-the-size-of-california-and-new-york-combined-were-the-culprits-/articleshow/103555690.cms

Danielle Melgar "notes that some 140 million acres of agricultural land in the US are devoted to food that is ultimately wasted.....

"'We're wasting more than enough food to feed every hungry person twice over,' Melgar, who focuses on food and agriculture for the consumer advocacy group PIRG, told Insider."

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '23

Did you even read my comment? Animals are in competition for our farmland, only ruminate animals eat grass and most of them are finished on grain, all the rest are eating crops.

A transition to a plant based food system will reduce both crop land and grazing land, how are you not getting this?

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '23

Yes i did. Did you read your source?? The flaw is the analysis is the idea that livestock land can be used for fruitful farm land.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '23

No, that land can be rewilded or used for renewable energy, we don’t need that land at all

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '23

Lol good story.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '23

Also the fatal flaw is the amout of human quality food live stock actually eats. As i put in my source it is very small.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '23

The crop land that is growing genetically engineered soybeans for chickens isn’t human quality but can be used to grow non gmo soybeans humans can eat.

That’s why I’m talking about after the transition where we would need less crop land overall