# Killing animals for food **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 4, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killing-animals-for-food/765066 "2016-09-04T22:45:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 38
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killing-animals-for-food/765066/38 "2016-09-05T09:26:44Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > I don’t intend to argue how many kg of grain make 1 kg of beef anymore. The cite I gave and many others support exactly the spirit of what I said. You are trying to argue a small detail to the larger issue at hand. Whether its 50kg of cashews and 34kg of wild buffalo grass - its _unnecessary food production_. It isn’t feeding the masses of the world, it is feeding a small portion of the population of the planet while stinking up the environment for everyone (including your odd, non sequitur focus field mice.) More provably wring ignorant nonsense. 1. Most of the world eats grazing animals not a small proportion. 2. It’s not unnecessary. People need protein to survive. If they can get that protein from directly, humanely killing one cow rather than poisoning 20, 000 rats to grow mung beans, how is it unnecessary? 3. Its not unnecessary because most cattle and sheep graze on land that won’t produce any other type of food. if we stopped eating grazing animals we’d need to stop farming 2/3 of the world’s agricultural land and make up the shortfall by clearing forests. Seriously, you post so much provably erroneous silliness that i am now giving you your final chance. Answer the actual question as it relates to your actual post, or I’ll just give up an let others judge your level of knowledge and credibility on this subject. It won’t be hard, given what you’ve written in your last 3 posts. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killing-animals-for-food/765066)._