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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1796140" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>Hey folks... I was just warned about political content and had a post removed because I responded to it. This thread is not about politics, but it IS about informing everyone about how to combat disinformation being used against the farming and ranching community. Please don't make it hard on the moderators.</p><p></p><p>In this interest I'm going to post a small segment of the original post so people can discuss.</p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify">Claim: Most agricultural land is used to grow livestock.</div> <div style="text-align: justify"></div> <div style="text-align: justify">Rebuttal: Agricultural land has many forms. When people say most of it is used to grow livestock they may mean several things. People may also say that the crops being grown are mostly used to feed livestock. I've heard people say that upwards of ninety percent of plant agriculture is done to feed livestock. Of course that means they are getting pretty loose with their definitions and they are avoiding context. I don't believe it is correct to say that oranges are grown to feed animals, but I've heard it claimed because once the juice is squeezed from citrus fruit the excess pulp can be fed to livestock. The two crops most often exampled are corn and soy. The greatest percentage of corn grains that are fed to livestock are processed for some kind of human use before becoming feed. About 40/50% of corn is processed for ethanol to be used as fuel. Another 20/25% is processed for oil or syrup. A much smaller percentage is used for fresh and canned corn, but still a human use. The greatest amount of corn by weight and volume fed to livestock is the stalk, fermented as silage. I don't know many people that would complain about cows eating corn stalks, but vegans do. About 98% of soy beans are processed for human uses before the byproduct produced becomes animal feed. While livestock eats almost 100% of soy meal, the oils have been extracted for cooking as well as industrial purposes. Human uses. As far as the entire percentage of land being used to grow meat, those opposed to livestock always seem to forget that much of the western states are unusable for plant agriculture and don't have enough water to raise anything people could eat. Many of the acres cattle are on are untillable. In many cases a single cow/calf unit will barely survive on a hundred acres. This kind of land being claimed as any percentage of the total skews the results dramatically.</div></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1796140, member: 42463"] Hey folks... I was just warned about political content and had a post removed because I responded to it. This thread is not about politics, but it IS about informing everyone about how to combat disinformation being used against the farming and ranching community. Please don't make it hard on the moderators. In this interest I'm going to post a small segment of the original post so people can discuss. [JUSTIFY]Claim: Most agricultural land is used to grow livestock. Rebuttal: Agricultural land has many forms. When people say most of it is used to grow livestock they may mean several things. People may also say that the crops being grown are mostly used to feed livestock. I've heard people say that upwards of ninety percent of plant agriculture is done to feed livestock. Of course that means they are getting pretty loose with their definitions and they are avoiding context. I don't believe it is correct to say that oranges are grown to feed animals, but I've heard it claimed because once the juice is squeezed from citrus fruit the excess pulp can be fed to livestock. The two crops most often exampled are corn and soy. The greatest percentage of corn grains that are fed to livestock are processed for some kind of human use before becoming feed. About 40/50% of corn is processed for ethanol to be used as fuel. Another 20/25% is processed for oil or syrup. A much smaller percentage is used for fresh and canned corn, but still a human use. The greatest amount of corn by weight and volume fed to livestock is the stalk, fermented as silage. I don't know many people that would complain about cows eating corn stalks, but vegans do. About 98% of soy beans are processed for human uses before the byproduct produced becomes animal feed. While livestock eats almost 100% of soy meal, the oils have been extracted for cooking as well as industrial purposes. Human uses. As far as the entire percentage of land being used to grow meat, those opposed to livestock always seem to forget that much of the western states are unusable for plant agriculture and don't have enough water to raise anything people could eat. Many of the acres cattle are on are untillable. In many cases a single cow/calf unit will barely survive on a hundred acres. This kind of land being claimed as any percentage of the total skews the results dramatically.[/JUSTIFY] [/QUOTE]
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