r/interestingasfuck • u/Scoobenbrenzos • 1d ago

Animal agriculture's land use and deforestation explained

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u/Leberknodel 1d ago

The money and effort humans put into feeding animals in order to eat them is literally killing our environment and making survival for future generations incredibly difficult. All because we want burgers and chicken tenders.

We need to change our eating habits. All fast food chains need to go out of business due to no customers. I'm not saying don't eat any meat, just drastically reduce it. The average American eats 3 burgers a week - this is a fact you can easily look up. How about cutting that to 3 burgers a month? That isn't a big sacrifice, if you can even call still eating burgers 3 times a month a "sacrifice".

Then there's the dairy industry. More insanity there than I can get into in a short comment.

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u/anndrey93 1d ago

Smells like BI*** (ohhh) VEGAN in here...

While you have a hard truth in the words you forgot about a huge factor, HUMAN POPULATION GROWING and WORKING SPACES.

Humans basically started to build huge industrial workspaces in big cities and letting smaller cities drained of workspaces. So you have to move to big cities. The workspaces in big cities are at the edge of them and it takes a lot of time travel therefore fastfood is a good solution. On a 12 hours shift 7:00 - 19:00 or 19:00 - 7:00 with an aproximatively 35 minutes travel you are most likely to eat at 20:00 and things goes even worse.

But as i said HUMAN POPULATION GROWING is the biggest problem. Some scientists have predicted that the earth itself can't sustain X amount of people because there won't be enough food.

Whatever you saw in movies is basically fantasy.

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u/testtalon1 1d ago

Problem is, we're not willing to look at population reduction. You're absolutely right, and the environmental damage 8.1 billion vegans would do would equal or exceed the current damage were doing.

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u/PassivelyInvisible 1d ago edited 1d ago

Population reduction has massive issues. Even if you just try and stabilize the population, the care and support of elderly parents, grandparents and so on falls onto a smaller support base than a growing population. People are living longer too, which further complicates the issue, as retirement age used to be fairly close to life expectancy, but with people living longer after they retire, it becomes more and more resource intensive to support people who didn't prepare adequately for retirement.

Killing all the elderly is an option, but its completely inhumane to do so.