Of the total area that is used by humans (Agriculture, Urban and Built-up Land),

  • urban and built-up land is 1m km²,
  • agriculture is 48m km²,

so agriculture is 48 of 49 millions km² used, that's 98%. The remaining 2% are all streets and housing and other infrastructure together.

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[–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Most of the corn cattle are eating is the stalk and husks. The stuff we're going to grow regardless and would otherwise throw away.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago*

    Near slaughter when they get fattened up on feed lots (called finishing) it's mostly cracked corn grain, it's more towards the beggining of life that they're fed roughage with only a small amount of supporting grain.

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