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How much food do you think a cow eats? How much fertile soil is dedicated to grow food for livestock instead of human food? Is it safe to say that a cow eats about 50kg per day? How much do you eat in a week? These are the things that you should be asking to yourself.

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Everyone prefers grass fed cows anyway, right?

So 50kg of grass. That is quite a decent amount of land to cover per day man.

My point is that cows don't smash the field mice all day long.

I was shocked to learn a few years ago that the percentage of US grown corn for human consumption is so low that it is basically an afterthought in the farming industry.

That doesn't mean that switching g to 100% vegetarian would have no impact, but does mean that the actual farming area is already sufficient for humans.

Sometimes I wonder what we’re going to do with all that farmland when ethanol and industrial livestock isn’t a thing anymore.

I can use it. We can turn it into food forests for a back-to-the-land lifestyle product. Also carbon sequester.

Basically: turn it back to forests and make it easy for people fleeing dying cities to move there (in the 2040s)

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