37% of crops in the world (67% in the US) are actually used for animal feed. This increases land use, water use, and fertilizer/pesticide (petroleum products) use by a significant amount. Basically it roughly doubles how many resources you need to produce the same amount of calories. That’s not even including transportation, infrastructure, logistics, refrigerants, massive amounts of food waste, horrendous work conditions that drive a larger than average number of meat packers to suicide, and depletion of fisheries or topsoil that are also involved in the process.
37% of crops in the world (67% in the US) are actually used for animal feed. This increases land use, water use, and fertilizer/pesticide (petroleum products) use by a significant amount. Basically it roughly doubles how many resources you need to produce the same amount of calories. That’s not even including transportation, infrastructure, logistics, refrigerants, massive amounts of food waste, horrendous work conditions that drive a larger than average number of meat packers to suicide, and depletion of fisheries or topsoil that are also involved in the process.