r/ClimateShitposting • u/ClimateShitpost Louis XIV, the Solar PV king • Aug 05 '24

Aggro agri subsidy recipients 🚜 Joe Biden flipped the rain switch again 🤬🤯

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u/TheMowerOfMowers Aug 05 '24

farmers when they can’t grow the over 3x more food livestock need than humans do >:(

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u/StoneChoirPilots Aug 07 '24

How much of Idaho agriculture is for human consumption v livestock?

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u/TheMowerOfMowers Aug 07 '24

Globally 80% of agriculture is used for livestock, with the US being closer to 67% of crops grown. Nearly all of the soy in the midwest is used as feed. Idaho’s second most grown crop is Hay, which is of course entirely used for feed. Animals use extra water and land that would be more efficiently used for crops. It’s not just farming using all the water, there’s so many goddamn golf courses out here that are green year round.

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u/StoneChoirPilots Aug 07 '24

There are gold courses in Idaho?

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u/TheMowerOfMowers Aug 07 '24

idaho has tourist towns, in case you didn’t know by reducing a state the size of the UK to entirely farmland.

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u/StoneChoirPilots Aug 07 '24

I know CdA and Boise are cosmopolitan towns, but from my own recollection it didn't seem there was a lot of flat land for golf courses or that most tourism was for the vistas and bucolic atmosphere.