Down in the leaf litter again
When Eminem said “I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like” was that an endorsement of Kant’s distinction between noumena and phenomena?
I know I post too many pictures of Tribble in the water, but I cannot get over how his fur doesn’t get wet but floats around him. He’s been in the creek for 10 minutes now.
Source: Pearls Of Passion: A Treasury of Lesbian Erotica - edited by C. Allyson Lee and Makeda Silvera
saw this massive onion bigger than my entire hand in the produce aisle and immediately snatched it up solely to weigh it and a guy across the aisle asked how much it weighed because he was curious as well and when i told him it was two pounds he excitedly was like “it’s like the biggest one i’ve ever seen..” humanity rocks moment. bonding with strangers over giant onion
i always hear the argument that farming is necessary because animals eat food that humans are not able to eat (grass etc.). And apart from the fact that we cut down a lot of forests to make room for that grazing, it doesn't really hold up, due to the sheer amount of animals we feed. The FAO released a graphic that was eagerly picked up by meat advocates, where they said that only about 14% of animal feed was edible to humans
the thing is, that is 14% of 6 billion tonnes. lets just take the 13% that are grains, and edible for humans.
13 % of 6.000.000.000 is 780.000.000
so 780 million tonnes of grain, edible for humans
that's 780.000.000.000 kg
depending on what grain is used (corn, oats, barley, rye), calories vary a bit, but since we're talking about dried matter, lets say 1 kg has about 3000 calories.
so we have about 2.340.000.000.000.000 calories from grains every year, that we feed to livestock (mainly in rich countries). if we assume that every person needs 2.500 calories a day and add that up to a year, how many people could we feed with those calories every year?
2.564.383.561. over 2. billion. people. obviously we would lose some of that food to waste, obviously people cannot just eat corn, rye and oats. but still. so much food.
"For every 100 calories of grain we feed animals, we get only about 40 new calories of milk, 22 calories of eggs, 12 of chicken, 10 of pork, or 3 of beef." so we are just wasting calories here
ALTif everyone shifted to a plant based diet, we could drastically reduce land use and feed more people
not everyone can shift to a plant based diet right now. but if you live in a high income country you are generally in a very privileged position in which your lifestyle is made possible by exploiting the planetary resources (outside your countries borders) and human lives and going as plant based as you can in your diet might be the single biggest thing you can do to reduce your negative impact on planet earth and the beings who live on it.
