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Originally Posted by Pornopat
Based on a study finding that wood mouse populations dropped from 25 per hectare to 5 per hectare after harvest (attributed to migration and mortality) Davis estimates that 10 animals per hectare are killed from farming every year.
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10 animals per hectare hahahahahahahahahahaha
Thats the funniest thing i have heard all day , 10 animals per hectare per year lol, add about 3 or 4 zero's to that and you might be close, or did he mean JUST wood mice hahaha
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Originally Posted by Pornopat
If all 120,000,000 acres (490,000 km2) of cropland is used for a vegetarian/vegan diet then approximately 1.2 billion animals would die each year. If half of the cropland was converted to ruminant-pasture then Davis estimates only .9 billion animals would die each year, assuming people switched from the 8 billion poultry killed each year to beef, lamb, and dairy products.[14]
Gaverick Matheny, a Ph.D. candidate in agricultural economics at the University of Maryland, counters that Davis' reasoning contains several major flaws, including narrowing the definition of "harm" to include only the killing of animals, and calculating the number of animal deaths based on land area rather than per consumer. Because an equal amount of protein can be produced from 1 hectare of cropland, 2.6 hectares of ruminant dairy, or 10 hectares of ruminant beef, less cropland would be needed for a vegetarian diet. According to Metheny's estimates, 0.3 animals would be killed per person for a vegan diet, 0.39 for a vegetarian diet, and 1.5 in the Davis model. Matheny says that "After correcting for these errors,
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both of them must share the same fucked up brain
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Originally Posted by Pornopat
Davis?s argument makes a strong case for, rather than against, adopting a vegetarian diet."
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this about sums about the article, a completely biased answer.
How does davis case make a strong case for a vegetarian diet ? unless he were a vegetarian trying to prove to himself he was being "ethical" by killing less animals. Lets just pretend we are fucked in the head and use HIS faulty math. So by his own numbers more SMART and WILD creatures are killed for a vegetarian diet, as opposed to a select few not as smart animals for the meat eaters..
The whole "fuzzy math" starts from a guess about fucking WOOD mice and ends with " a strong case" hahaha