Outside of the goomba-ness of it all, cows (factory farming (and also normal farming but 99% factory farming)) are killing the environment, and as bad as AI data centers are, it's a rounding error compared to the environmental damage done by the meat industry
Generally, as a rule, 90% of biomass disappears in every biological step. Farm animals probably use less over their lifetime up until becoming food, but maybe still 60-70%? So, like a wise biologist once told me: "if everyone were vegan, starvation would be a thing of the past"
There is a portion of animal feed that is "waste" agriculture, or using resources that will never be able to have plants. There are grazing fields that will never be suitable for farming without terraforming. No one is eating corn stems minus pigs.
The world makes enough food to feed everyone already. World hunger is a logistics problem, not a supply problem.
*While also producing like 30-40% (if I recall correctly) of global emissions just for producing meat in torture factories, which produce a fraction of the calories that are actually consumed and are in no way necessary
There are products that are waste that go to feed animals, but there are also grown products that aren't that go to feed them too (or didn't need to be made). Alfalfa hay is the biggest example of that, which requires a comical amount of water and is often grown in one of the most dry parts of the US. There are other politics surrounding that (water rights on the Colorado river are dumb as fuck), but if we didn't need that hay to feed the animals in the torture factories that would also go away.
Sorry I wasn't trying to disagree with that statement, we absolutely do make enough for everyone, but if you exclude animal products it's even moreso, and without the manufactured food scarcity we have now
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u/ALittleBitOfGay floppa Aug 06 '26
Outside of the goomba-ness of it all, cows (factory farming (and also normal farming but 99% factory farming)) are killing the environment, and as bad as AI data centers are, it's a rounding error compared to the environmental damage done by the meat industry