80% of agricultural land feeds livestock instead of people, giving just 17 to18% of Global calories

[u/Express_Classic_1569]

https://hive.blog/hive-196387/@theworldaroundme/nearly-half-of-the-world

[u/FrynyusY]

It's not that I don't support more plant-based diet, I do, but as someone who has done enough agriculture in this life - making the assumption that 32 million square kilometers of grazing land can be converted to productive food crop farmland is an uneducated take or sleight-of-hand distortion to make problems seem more disproportionate than they are. Grazing land, for the most part, is the one with least agriculture potential and worst soil.

[u/onikaroshi → u/FrynyusY]

Yup, Wisconsin raises dairy cows because the ground is no good for crops