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> I don't think you'd be happy eating out of a bag of feed corn I am however, more than happy to eat any number of products that contain corn in various other
by usrbinbash 3y ago
> I don't think you'd be happy eating out of a bag of feed corn
I am however, more than happy to eat any number of products that contain corn in various other forms. Because, you know, "feed corn" is just, well, corn, and instead of feeding it to animals, we can give it to humans instead.
> Still, that soybean has a long way to go before its a brick of tofu wrapped in plastic sitting on your grocery store shelf.
That cow has a long way to go before its a bag of meat on a grocery shelf as well. And that way wasted ALOT more energy and resources than the way my Tofu block does.
- asdff 3y agoYou are not wrong about the energy equation. But the facts are still we have an industrialized food supply that depends in no small part of meat consumption. Replacing that with non meat alternatives is not always possible for certain things but also expensive to retool and reoutfit. Supply chains take a long time to establish.
- usrbinbash 3y ago> that depends in no small part of meat consumption. No, it really doesn't. It's a conscious decision of society that we produce, and consume, a lot of meat. As I have repeatedly demonstrated in this thread, a huge amount of the calories we put into the production of meat, come from human consumable foodstuffs. We have the production facilities to turn these grains and beans into flour, bread, tofu, canned beans, whatever. We do it every day, on an industrial scale. We could do so any time to these feedstocks as well. The technology exists, the facilities exist, the infrastructure exists, the supply chain exists.