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It's almost as if he's trying to evoke the horrendous animal abuses inherent to factory farming in order to pretend that feeding the hungry would somehow be worse than letting them starve.
It's a fucking sick and deranged position to take, frankly — what we should actually conclude from that comparison isn't that we shouldn't feed the poor, but that we should feed people and also improve conditions for livestock.
Actually, this basically was my point - to acknowledge that most people would object to being fed the way the animals they eat are fed (and also housed, and otherwise cared for) but it's also important to recognize that the problem is not as simple as simply changing what crops are grown for what purpose. Land used to grow feedstock is not necessarily suitable for growing food that humans eat, and beyond that there's a massive infrastructure issue (storage and transportation of bulk crops like alfalfa is a lot simpler than, say, tomatoes or bell peppers or apples).
Why did you assume my previous comment was malicious? is that your default reaction?
It overwhelmingly is. You're looking for an excuse.
99% of the animals humans consume are factory farmed. You cannot raise animals that intensively and still have grazing make up a major part of their diet. The animals we consume are fed a diet almost entirely composed of high intensity agricultural products. There are so many animals that the natural capacity of the Earth cannot support them. The Amazon is being burned down to grow soy for your beef.
okay? but that is a straw man. using the crop producing capacity presently consumed by livestock to instead produce food for humans is not the same as putting poor people in stalls and making them eat fucking corn cobs. Pull your head out.