Europe
Europe community on dbzer0. Intended to be a place to discuss European news, politics, or just general topics from a European perspective. Since this is on dbzer0 expect the community to lean more leftist-anarchist but a wide range of views are accepted here (within reason).
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where it's possible, we mostly do. animals graze on grasslands, and there is no reason to think farming that land is either ecologically sound or economically viable. the crops that are fed to livestock are largely crop seconds or parts of plants we can't or won't eat. soy is my favorite example, but cottonseed is another great one.
you're right, it is incorrect to say we could just switch it 1:1 to growing human food, Two-thirds of pastures are unsuitable for growing crops.
However also from the same source, We could let natural vegetation and ecosystems return to these lands, which would have large benefits for biodiversity and carbon sequestration if we eat less animal products. If there were less subsidies for animal products, people would buy less of them.
Instead of meat the EU should in my opinion subsidize plant based foods more whose climate impact is substantially less. Greenhouse gas emissions per kilogram of food product.
Contrary to commonly cited figures, 1 kg of meat requires 2.8 kg of human-edible feed for ruminants and 3.2 for monogastrics. By human-edible feed the paper means for example cereal grains, soybeans, pulses, banana and cassava (Fig. 1).
Plant-based diets can support healthy living at every age and life stage..
there is no reason to believe the land would be rewilded
Why not?