A shocking truth about organic farming:

An average organic field yields 35% less food p/acre than a conventional farm. But that doesn't mean you need 35% more land...

In fact you need 54% more as the extra land used to fill the gap, if organic, will ALSO have lower yields.🧵 2. This fact matters greatly because more land used for farming equals less land for rewilding.

Just by looking at it, you can tell that even the best organically farmed field is far less favourable for nature than untouched and unfarmed land.

So what does the science say?

Here's a surprising reason to be cheerful:

🟢40-60% of the weight of a slaughtered cow goes to making ground beef...

... and ground beef is by far the easiest meat product to replace with precision fermentation or cultivated meat.

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beefcentral.com/wp-content/upl… #vegan The #climate wrecking livestock industry is barely profitable as it is.

Globally it is propped up by much of the $540bn spent on #agriculture subsidies per year.

In the UK 90% of an average livestock farm's profits come from subsidies.

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