Most pasture/grazing land simply isn't suitable for crop farming, which is why we use it for pasture. Be it because of water retention or lacking topsoil or whatever, it's often the case that the only feasible way to produce food from an area is livestock farming.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The "livestock feed" section of the graph looks more than twice as big as "Food we eat", and at least some of the pasture land (much larger than both) has got to be viable, even if it mostly isn't.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Sure, and there's a very important discussion to be had about the influence livestock has on the environment. But that's a separate topic from the usefulness of pasture land for alternate purposes.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 6 points 1 day ago

It us wild that there is not a need. Distribution is (or was) the issue. Very sad humans refuse to feed others.