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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

This is not true. The vast majority of farmed animals come from high intensity operations and the vast bulk of the food they eat is grown agriculturally. This is one of those happy little lies people repeat to themselves without verifying because it provides them with a shred of moral license. They don't really care whether it's true or not and finding out it is false won't change their behaviour, it's a totally facile argument.

[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

the vast bulk of the food they eat is grown agriculturally.

sure, but I can't eat cornstalks and I don't want to eat soy cake, so feeding that to livestock is a conservation of resources.

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