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care to back that up with some facts? Off the top of my memory a beef cow requires at least 2 acres of land and an average of about 60 litres of water a day. Granted plants require more water per acre but 2 acres grows a lot more food per acre than any cow.

looking at your post in another way, the reason more land is used for plants is because of feed for the cattle such as soy and corn, not for human consumption.

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Yeah, even an arbitrary ten-second glance at google will let you know that it's substantially worse to have grazing land for cattle than it is to have cropping land.

Beef, on average, requires 16726m^3 per ton of product, whereas wheat requires 1437m^3/ton

http://waterfootprint.org/media/downloads/Report12.pdf

Not to mention that to successfully raise cattle year-round, you need to rotate feed crops for them as well. So you require not only land and resources for the cattle themselves, but also for their feed.

Not to disagree, but raw tonnage of food product is only one measure of food value. Nutritional composition and density is at least as important if not more so.

Meat and wheat serve different nutritional roles.

Very true.

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