![]() consumed 24.8 billion pounds of beef, with the majority of that cattle being raised in massive feedlots. ![]() Most of Our Grain is Being Consumed by Animals, Not HumansĪpproximately 70 billion farm animals are being raised for food annually. And when you combine that with the amount of land used for grazing and housing animals, you’ll realize that we have a huge problem. ![]() Why? Because 33 percent of agricultural land worldwide is used solely for livestock feed production. According to the World Wildlife Fund, “around 50 percent of the world’s habitable land has been converted to farming land.” But when we think about agriculture, we need to look beyond the grasslands used for grazing livestock and the acres of land dedicated to massive farming operations, or even the land used to grow vegetables and grains for human consumption. ![]()
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