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What percentage of vegetables are fed to livestock?

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Free range/pasture livestock may indeed ingest non-vegetable feed. The worms and other bugs ingested by these animals as a percentage is difficult to calculate. the only animals not inclined to be on a total vegetable/grass diet are swine. read more

-- HERBIVORES ON THE HOOF. Each year an estimated 41 million tons of plant protein is fed to U.S. livestock to produce an estimated 7 million tons of animal protein for human consumption. About 26 million tons of the livestock feed comes from grains and 15 million tons from forage crops. read more

One-third of the planet’s arable land is occupied by livestock feed crop cultivation. Seventy percent of Brazil’s deforested land is used as pasture, with feed crop cultivation occupying much of the remainder. And in Botswana, the livestock industry consumes 23 percent of all water used. read more

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