people do it just for pleasure

there are other reasons, and pretending there aren’t won’t help youconvince the people who continue to choose it.

it’s a new post in the community

It’s actually pretty effective (at reducing demand for meat).

what makes you think that?

your shepon paper shows a great deal of spinach being fed to chickens. why would it be fed to chickens if it were suitable for human consumption? I don’t actually know, but my guess is that it is not suitable for human consumption, and that is why it is fed to chickens. that’s a conservation of resources. the potatoes fed to cattle are likely the same.

this paper doesn’t discuss this discrepancy at all. I have to say I don’t find the analysis very compelling.

Raising plants to feed animals so we can eat the animals is less efficient than raising plants for us to eat.

if that were the situation, you might be right. but since we actually feed livestock mostly crop seconds and byproducts, it’s actually a conservation of resources in a lot of situations, with minimal competition with human food sources

We currently grow enough plants to feed 15B people, but we feed that to the animals instead.

a lot of the plant matter fed to animals is parts of plants we can’t or won’t eat.

and a lot of the land used isn’t crop land, but grazing land

and they’re is no reason to believe the land would ever be rewilded.