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Did you take into account we waste a lot of resources planting crops to feed cattle?


You see the "super-simplified" at the beginning of the explanation?

So, no.

Neither does that explanation account for overconsumption, food waste & spoilage, crop mixes, erosion & desertification, water supply shifts, etc...

It's a very basic upper bound. The number of people who could be fed in the best case.




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