• plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    I am sorry but I am not happy.

    Yes. Technically. Growing less than one percent of the land we grow for ethanol

    It was 30%.It could be used otherwise if we used elecrric cars but that wouldn’t create food security.

    JUST IN CASE we needed

    Well, not starving to death is a reasonable cause to do something.

    We could also easily open far more than that in farmland and grow other crops

    Then there is other surplus food that has to be thrown away, or also be turned into ethanol.

    technically, we could grow food we neither want nor need.

    For food it’s worth having a surplus. The bad part is that food is turned into ethanol while people starve to death.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      We do not fucking need that land for food. There is no shortage of food. Nobody is fucking starving due to a lack of food. There is a lack of distribution, yes. But not a fucking lack of food.

      Furthermore, converting 250k acres of that corn that we are NOT FUCKING EATING BECAUSE IT IS BEING USED FOR ETHANOL into solar that powers cars instead would ALLOW US TO GAIN ALMOST 30,000,000 ACRES OF LAND TO GROW FOOD.

      Food that we do not fucking need in the first place.

      Jesus fucking christ.

      Have a nice day. I’m done. Goodbye.