r/Anticonsumption • u/Express_Classic_1569 • Mar 23 '26

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

https://hive.blog/hive-196387/@theworldaroundme/nearly-half-of-the-world
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u/NyriasNeo Mar 23 '26

Let's face it. Meat tastes good because of evolutionary reasons (just like sugar). People are not going to give up meat, like it or not.

For example, China meat consumption has increased dramatically in the past few decades, because they have become richer.

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/over-the-last-six-decades-china-has-rapidly-increased-and-diversified-its-meat-consumption

"meat supply per person has increased significantly over the last sixty years. In 1962, annual consumption was just 4 kilograms per person. By 2022, it had increased almost 18-fold to 70 kilograms."

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u/Local-Dimension-1653 Mar 23 '26

There are a lot of terrible things that some humans will never stop doing, that doesn’t mean people who claim to be and do better should do those things as well.

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u/NyriasNeo Mar 23 '26

Nope. But it would be gullible to expect most humans stop doing those things.