Since the agricultural revolution, humans have converted roughly 4.8 billion hectares — nearly 12 billion acres — of land into agriculture, land that once belonged to wild ecosystems and free-roaming animals. About one-third is cropland and two-thirds is pasture/meadow, showing that cultivation and managed food production together displaced enormous wild habitat (see here). About half of the world’s habitable land is used for crop growing (see here).

And while we are told that most of this stolen land is growing crops for the animals, we must keep in mind that these animals lived on the land without the need for cultivating, fertilizing, spraying against weeds and pests, and without water. They were able to feed themselves without our help! The only reason these animals are now on feedlots is because we took their land.

Surely, no one believes that we took the land and worked hard back-breaking work for years on the fields, just to feed the animals that were on that same land without anyone needing to work to feed them?! The idea is ridiculous.

In this post I am sharing a discussion I had with a vegan on LinkedIn. I use only their initial SA for the blog, but if you have LinkedIn membership, you can see this conversation here.

Below you will find SA’s original post “as is” on LinkedIn, I copy-pasted together with the picture, which SA likely created by AI. So the credit for this picture with the animals goes to SA.